Taxon: Senna sophera (L.) Roxb.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Senna sophera var. purpurea (no accessions)
• Senna sophera var. sophera (no accessions)

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):446. 1999; Ill Chin Mat Med, as Cassia torosa)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Panama
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Northern South America: Guyana [n.]; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Bahia
  Western South America: Colombia

Other:

• widely naturalized in tropics, exact native range obscure

References:

• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2. (L Oman)
• 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. 35:440.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. (Leg SAsia)
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia. (Leg Bahia)
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist. (Leg Malesia)
• Lock, J. M. 1988. Cassia sens. lat. (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 43:340.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):446.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Senna sophera.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Senna sophera. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Cassia purpurea Lindl. [≡ Senna sophera var. purpurea]
  
• Cassia sophera L. [≡ Senna sophera var. sophera]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Cassia torosa Cav. [= Senna sophera var. sophera]
  
• Senna purpurea (Lindl.) Roxb. [≡ Senna sophera var. purpurea]
  

Check other databases for Senna sophera (L.) Roxb.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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