Shrub attaining a height of 27-30 cm.
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📚 Overview
Diagnostic Keys
Sanjib Barua
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
1 year
Sanjib Barua
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Reproduction
Seeds
Sanjib Barua
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Life Expectancy
1 YEAR
Sanjib Barua
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Morphology
It is a common weed occurring in roadsides, wastelands. Shrub attaining a height of 27-30 cm. Stem glabrous, greenish, round. Leaves glabrous, pinnately compound, stipulate, opposite, 7-12 pairs of leaflet, 3.5×1.5 cm, ovate- lanceolate, margin entire, leaf rachis 10-15 cm long, petiole 1.2cm long, primary vein 1, lateral vein 6-10 pairs per leaflet. Inflorescence short axillary cyme and terminal few flowered panicle. Flower bracteate, bract ovate-lanceolate, 4-5mm long, peduncle 1-2cm long. Sepals 5 short, pubescent, connate at the base, 0.5×0.3cm, pentamerous, greenish-yellow. Petals 5 bright yellow, obovate, pentamerous, 1×0.5cm, shortly clawed. Androecium stamen 10, 3 staminoids, 2-4mm long, remaining 7 are perfect, 3 long and 4 short, 4-6mm long filament, 3-4mm long anther. Gynoecium carpel 1, monocarpellary, ovary pubescent, 1-1.2cm long, light green, swallon. Fruit pods swallon, slightly curved, glabrous, 4-5 cm long, seeds numerous, ovoid
Sanjib Barua
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Field Tips
Petiole and stem reddish in colour. Foetid when bruised.
Flower
In axillary and terminal racemes, yellow. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A pod, terete, brown when mature. Seeds many, compressed, brown. Fruiting throughout the year.
Leaf Apices
Acute
Leaf arrangement
Alternate distichous
Leaf Bases
Oblique
Leaf Margins
Entire
Leaf Shapes
Lanceolate
Leaf Types
Paripinate
Habit
A small shrub.
Keystone Foundation
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Miscellaneous Details
Preferred food plant of Emigrant butterflies. Bark, leaves and seeds used in traditional medicine.
Keystone Foundation
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Common on plains upto 900m. India and Sri Lanka.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Not at risk
Sanjib Barua
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Protection Legal Status
common in grassland and wastelands
Sanjib Barua
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
• Used in the treatment of bronchitis.
• Used in the treatment of diabetes, wounds.
• Puragatives, used externally in the treatment of ringworm.
Sanjib Barua
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Leaves eaten as vegetable. Caterpillars are found on this plant.
Keystone Foundation
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Senna |
| Species | Senna sophera (L.) Roxb. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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