Flowers bloom during July to September. Fruits ripe in Early winter.
🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
| Assamese |
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| English |
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| Hindi |
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| Karbi |
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| Other |
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| Tamil |
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| bodo |
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📚 Overview
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Morphology
A softwooded undershrub or annual; branchlets glabrous. Leaflets 3-5 pairs, thin coriaceous, base oblique, apex obtuse, margin entire. Flowers in terminal racemes. petals 5, golden yellow. Stamens 10 including 3 staminodes. Pod short, compressed; seeds many. Fairly common in forest edges, waste lands upto 3000 ft. in the road side. Generally dies during winter
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Field Tips
Foetid smell when broken.
Flower
In terminal racemes, yellow. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A pod, flat, compressed, brown when mature. Seeds many, oblong, longitudinal. Fruiting throughout the year.
Leaf Apices
Apiculate
Leaf arrangement
Alternate distichous
Leaf Bases
Cuneate
Leaf Margins
Entire
Leaf Shapes
Obovate
Leaf Types
Paripinate
Habit
A small shrub.
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Miscellaneous Details
Caterpillars of the Emigrant and Grass yellow butterflies feed on the plant.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Common in plains from the coast in low lying places, river banks, fallow fields, wastelands. Found upto 1400m. India to Polynesia.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Young leaves are used as vegetables by Bodos, favourable with pork / fish or as mixed vegetable. The leaves, seeds and roots are considered to having medicinal properties for skin diseases
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Tender shoots are cooked and eaten.
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| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Senna |
| Species | Senna tora (L.) Roxb. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
