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Senna italica ssp. italica Mill.

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Senna Mill.

Senna italica ssp. italica Mill. [Preferred name]
    Cassia aschrek Forssk. {Synonym}
    Cassia italica ssp. italica (Mill.)Spreng. {Synonym}
    Cassia obovata Collad. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Chotatarado [3391]; Country Senna [3030, 3391]; Dog Senna [3030]; Italian Senna [153, 3391]; Senegal Senna [153, 2023, 3391]; Tripoli Senna [153]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [111]; Cape Verde (N) [153]; Chad (N) [111]; Djibouti (N) [8]; Egypt (N) [153]; Gambia The (N) [153]; Libya (N) [141]; Mali (N) [11]; Niger (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [153]; Senegal (N) [153]; Somalia (N) [153]; Sudan (N) [153]; Western Sahara (N) [153]
  Asia
India (N) [153, 3391]; Andhra Pradesh [3391]; Daman [3391]; Delhi [3391]; Diu [3391]; Gujarat [3391]; Haryana [3391]; Himachal Pradesh [3391]; Jammu-Kashmir [3391]; Karnataka [3391]; Kerala [3391]; Madhaya Pradesh [3391]; Maharashtra [3391]; Punjab [3391]; Rajasthan [3391]; Tamil Nadu [3391]; Iran (N) [153]; Pakistan (N) [2021]
  Middle East
Israel (N) [153]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahara regional transition zone - bushland and thicket. [33];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [153];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [10, 106, 141, 2021, 3391] ; Illustration [10, 106, 141, 2021]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Herb, Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [14]; Medicine [14, 3030, 3391]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

10.

  Aubreville, A., 1950
    La Flore Forestiere Soudano-Guineene

11.

  Keay, R.W.J., 1958
    Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

106.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1967
    Caesalp.In:Flora Trop.East Africa. Milne-Redhead & Polhill

111.

  Aubreville, A., 1965
    9.Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora du Cameroun.Aubreville & Leroy

141.

  Jafri, S.M.N., 1978
    Caesalpiniaceae.In:Flora of Libya pt.61 (Jafri & El Gadi,Ed)

153.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1958
    Kew Bull.13:231-252. New...Cassias from Tropical Africa.

2021.

  Ali, S.I., 1973
    Flora of Pakistan, No.54 Caesalpiniaceae. Karachi:Univ Karac

2023.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    Flora of Ceylon 7: 34-107. Caesalpinioideae

3030.

  Ambasta, S.P., 1986
    The useful plants of India

3391.

  Singh, V., 2001
    Monograph on Indian Subtribe Cassiinae (Caesalpiniaceae)
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