Taxon: Senna alexandrina Mill.

Common names:

• Alexandrian senna   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Indian senna   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• jalelo   (Source: F Somalia )
  
• senna   (Source: J. A. Duke. p.c.)
  
• Tinnevelly senna   (Source: Pl Book )
  
• true senna   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• casse   (Source: Dict Rehm as Cassia senna) [French]
  
• séné d'Egypte   (Source: Dict Rehm as Cassia senna) [French]
  
• alexandrinische Senna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [German]
  
• sen de España   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [Spanish]
  
• sena alejandrina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [Spanish]
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (adulterant of henna fide Herbal Drugs)
  
• Medicines: folklore; source of sennosides A & B   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; Baileya 23:215. 1996; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide F Yemen, as Cassia senna)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Senna alexandrina from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [s.]; Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya [n.]
  West Tropical Africa: Mali; Niger; Nigeria [n.]
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique [introd.?]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Jordan [s.w.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.]; Pakistan [e.]

Other:

• naturalized in neotropics

References:

• Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. (Herbal Drugs) [= Cassia angustifolia].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• 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. 35:481.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn) [= Cassia senna].
• Lock, J. M. 1988. Cassia sens. lat. (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 43:338.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
• Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:215.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Senna alexandrina.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Cassia acutifolia Delile
  
• (=) Cassia angustifolia Vahl
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (=) Cassia lanceolata Forssk.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Cassia senna L.
  
• (=) Senna angustifolia (Vahl) Batka
  

Check other databases for Senna alexandrina Mill.:

• 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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