Trees & Plants

Coffee-senna

Dhiguthiyara, Dhikathiri

Senna occidentalis (L.) Link

Fairly common in open areas The roots are a remedy for diabetes, inflammation, ring worm, colic, flatulence, dyspepsia, epilepsy, scorpion sting and convulsions. The leaves and seeds are up × used to treat leprosy, erysipelas, ulcers, cough, bronchitis, hiccough, asthma and or hy

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uses: The roots are a remedy for diabetes, inflammation, ring worm, colic, flatulence, dyspepsia, epilepsy, scorpion sting and convulsions. The leaves and seeds are up × used to treat leprosy, erysipelas, ulcers, cough, bronchitis, hiccough, asthma and or hydrophobia. Th reat & damage: The plant is an invasive at species. Its spread in Maldives need be monitored and appropriate management measures adopted should it become a to problem.
family: Fabaceae
description: Erect subshrubs. Leaves up × to 22 cm long; leaflets 4-5 pairs, 2.5-7 1.5-3.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded; rachis to 18 cm Th long with a sessile, hemispherical gland at base; stipules 4-7 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, caducous. Flowers ca. 2 cm across, in terminal and axillary racemes, to 3 cm long; pedicels 0.8-1.2 cm long; bracts linear-lanceolate. Sepals 6-10 mm long, ovate, obtuse, mucronate. Petals 5, yellow, 1-1.5 cm long, obovate. Stamens 10, unequal, × only 7 fertile. Pods 5-9 0.6-0.8 cm, linear, × compressed; seeds 20-25, 4-5 3-4 mm, ovate or suborbicular, compressed, brown.
distribution: Pantropical
english names: Coffee-senna · Stinking wood · Septic weed
flowering fruiting: July - December Tropical America
occurrence maldives: Fairly common in open areas