Trees & Plants

Golden senna

Senna surattensis (Burm. f.)

Occasional in open areas Young leaves are cooked and eaten as vegetable. A decoction of the root is used against gonorrhea. Leaves are used in the treatment of dysentery and the flowers are a purgative. Th reat & damage: The plant is an invasive species in most of the Asia-Pacifi

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uses: Young leaves are cooked and eaten as vegetable. A decoction of the root is used against gonorrhea. Leaves are used in the treatment of dysentery and the flowers are a purgative. Th reat & damage: The plant is an invasive species in most of the Asia-Pacific countries. 3 It has the potential to become invasive in Maldives. at, .P/OAF
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Cassia surattensis Burm. f., Cassia glauca Lam.
description: Shrubs. Leaves alternate, rachis 8-20 cm long, ribbed; leaflets 6-10 × pairs, 2-5 0.8-2 cm, elliptic or obovate- oblong, obtuse at apex, oblique at base, discolourous, secondary veins 6-9 pairs; a petioles 2-4 cm long; stipules up to 1.5 cm Th long, linear-ensiform, inflexed, pubescent, subpersistent. Glands between lower 1 to 3 It pairs of leaflets. Racemes 5 to 20-flowered, in the axils of upper leaves, corymbose; peduncles 2.5-8 cm long; pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm long. Sepals obtuse, outer 2 half the length of inner ones. Petals 0.8-2.5 cm long, yellow. Stamens 10, subequal. Ovary stipitate, silky hairy; style 1.5-3 mm long. × Pods 4-10 0.8-1.8 cm, strap-shaped, flat, sepatate, dark brown; seeds 10-13, brown, × 5-7 2.5-4 mm, oblong, blackish, shiny. f.) Irwin & Barneby f.,
native range: Indo-Malaysia and Australia
distribution: Asia, Africa, North and Central America and part of Oceania
english names: Golden senna · Glaucous Cassia · Scrambled egg bush
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: Occasional in open areas