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Taxon: Senna occidentalis (L.) Link

Genus: Senna
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Caesalpinioideae tribe: Cassieae subtribe: Cassiinae. Also placed in: Caesalpiniaceae
Nomen number: 100059
Place of publication: Handbuch 2:140. 1829
Name verified on: 15-Mar-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-Jan-2004
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 23 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Distributional range:

  • throughout tropic & warm-temperate regions

References:

  • Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed) [= Cassia].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Irwin, H. S. & R. C. Barneby. 1982. The American Cassiinae: a synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Cassiinae in the New World. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35:436.
  • Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia. (Leg Bahia)
  • Lock, J. M. 1988. Cassia sens. lat. (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 43:340.
  • Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:226–227.
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust) [= Cassia].
  • Randell, B. R. 1988. Revision of the Cassiinae in Australia. 1. Senna Miller sect. Chamaefistula (Colladon) Irwin and Barneby. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 11:41.
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 16:111.
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Check other databases for Senna occidentalis (L.) Link:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?100059 (16 March 2009)

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