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Taxon:  Senna tora (L.) Roxb.



Summary
Genus:
Senna
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:
Cassieae
Subtribe:
Cassiinae
Nomen number:
313456
Place of publication:
Fl. ind. ed. 1832, 2:340. 1832
Verified:
03/14/1988 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cassia tora L.

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Reference(s)
  1. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials (revised edition). New Delhi. 1985-1992
  2. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  3. George, A. S., ed. Flora of Australia. 1980-
  4. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  5. Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979 Note: = Cassia
  6. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
  7. Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. 1994
  8. Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist. 1991
  9. Lock, J. M. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. 1989
  10. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  11. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  12. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:88.
  13. Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 12(1):446. http://proseanet.org
  14. Randell, B. R. 1988. Revision of the Cassiinae in Australia. 1. Senna Miller sect. Chamaefistula (Colladon) Irwin and Barneby. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 11:45.
  15. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  16. Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually). http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5090172
  17. Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
Common names
English
foetid cassia –
Java-bean –
sickle senna –
sicklepod –
sicklepod senna –
stinking cassia –
French
cassier sauvage –
pois puant –
séné –
India
takala –
Portuguese (Brazil)
fedegoso –
Spanish
bicho –
brusca cimarrona –
ororuz –
Transcribed Chinese
xiao jue ming –
Transcribed Korean
gingangnamcha –
gyeolmyeongja –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChina s.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan e.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaCambodia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPapua New Guinea  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificSolomon Islands  
4Naturalized    widely natzd.
6Other    exact native range obscure
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China (s.)
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan (e.)
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Pacific
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Solomon Islands
Naturalized (widely natzd.)
Other (exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):446. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Atlas WWeed) –


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