Senna italica Mill
Species
Senna italica Mill.
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Cassia bahamensis Mill.
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Cassia italica (Mill.) F.W.Andrews
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Cassia italica (Mill.) Spreng.
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Cassia italica (Mill.) Spreng. ex Mabberley, 1981
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Cassia ligustrina Forsskal
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Cassia ligustrina Forsskal ex Benth.
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Cassia ligustrina L.
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Cassia ligustrina Mill.
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Cassia ligustrina var. eggersiana Urb.
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Cassia ligustrina var. jaegeriana Urb.
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Cassia obtusa Roxb.
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Cassia occidentalis var. glabra Stahl
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Cassia porturegalis Bancr.
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Cassia turquinae (Britton & Rose) Leon
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Ditremexa confusa Britton & Rose
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Ditremexa ligustrina (L.) Britton & Rose ex Britton & P.Wilson
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Ditremexa ligustrina (L.) Jacks.
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Ditremexa ligustrina (L.) Raf.
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Peiranisia turquinae Britton & Rose
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Senna ligustrina (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
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Senna ligustrina var. turquinae (Britton) Barreto & Yakovlev
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Senna obtusa Roxb.
Immediate children
Subspecies
Senna italica subsp. arachoides (Burchell) Lock
Subspecies
Senna italica subsp. italica
Subspecies
Senna italica subsp. micrantha (Brenan) Lock
Perennial, erect or spreading herbaceous shrub up to c. 1.5 m tall. Leaves up to c. 10 (-12) cm long : petioles without a basal gland; leaflets up to 6 (-7) pairs, obovate to obovate-oblong, 2.5 (-3.5) cm x 11 (-22) mm, symmetrically or asymmetrically cuneate at base, obtuse but mucronate at tip. Racemes many-flowered. Flowers medium-sized. Sepals yellow, up to c. 12 mm long. Petals usually yellow with darker veins, up to c. 1.75 cm long, obovate. Two or 3 lower stamens longest, 5 medium sized, 2 upper much shorter. Pods up to 5 cm x 18 mm, compressed flat, oblong, curved, with a longitudinal flap-like crest above each seed. Seeds compressed, subquadrate to rectangular, reticulated ridged, up to c. 7 mm x 4 mm.
Saudi Arabia : Widespread. An increased in the rangelands weed of neglected orchards, fields.
Distribution : Africa, SW Asia.