Taxon: Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Common names:

• candelabra-tree   (Source: Dict Rehm as Cassia didymobotrya)
  
• peanut-butter-cassia   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 )
  
• grondboontjiebotterkassia   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) [Afrikaans]
  
• geflügelte Kassie   (Source: Dict Rehm as Cassia didymobotrya) [German]
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13; P. Hanelt, pers. comm.; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide F Yemen, as Cassia didymobotyra)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Senna didymobotrya from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda; Zaire
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Other:

• naturalized in s. Africa, Australia, United States (including Hawaii), & Mexico

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13) [= Cassia].
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 11:229–231.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland. (Leg Queensl) [= Cassia].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Lock, J. M. 1988. Cassia sens. lat. (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 43:339.
• Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:221.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr) [= Cassia].
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Senna didymobotrya.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cassia didymobotrya Fresen. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)

Check other databases for Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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:

• 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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