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Senna italica Mill.

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Senna Mill.

Senna italica Mill. [Preferred name]
    Cassia italica (Mill.)F.W.Andrews {Synonym}
    Cassia italica (Mill.)Spreng. {Synonym}
    Cassia ligustrina Mill. {Synonym}
    Cassia obtusa Roxb. {Synonym}
    Cassia porturegalis Bancr. {Synonym}
    Senna obtusa Roxb. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Chotatarado [3391]; Italian Senna [11, 2023, 3391]; Italjanskaya Senna [4145]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [106]; Botswana (N) [106]; Cameroon (N) [111]; Cape Verde (N) [153]; Chad (N) [106]; Djibouti (N) [239]; Egypt (N) [153]; Ethiopia (N) [106]; Gambia The (N) [153]; Kenya (N) [106]; Libya (N) [141]; Mali (N) [106]; Namibia (N) [106]; Niger (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [106]; Somalia (N) [106]; South Africa (N) [153]; Sudan (N) [153]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Uganda (N) [106]; Western Sahara (N) [153]
  Asia
Azerbaijan (I) Azerbaijan* [4169]; India (N) [153, 1914, 2021, 3017, 3020, 3027, 3094, 3113, 3377, 3384, 3391]; Andhra Pradesh [3384]; Daman [3094]; Delhi [3391]; Diu [3094]; Gujarat [3017]; Haryana [3391]; Himachal Pradesh [3391]; Jammu-Kashmir [3391]; Karnataka [3020]; Kerala [3391]; Madhaya Pradesh [3391]; Maharashtra [2021]; Punjab [3377]; Tamil Nadu [3027]; Iran (N) [153, 1939]; Iraq (N) [1939]; Pakistan (N) [1914, 2021]; Sri Lanka (N) [1914, 2023]; Uzbekistan (I) Surhandarinskaya [4145]
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (U) [151]
  Middle East
Bahrain (N) [1939]; Israel (N) [153]; Oman (N) [1939]; Qatar (N) [1939]; Saudi Arabia (N) [1939]; Sinai (N) [1939]; South Yemen (N) [1939]; United Arab Emirates (N) [1939]; Yemen (N) [1939]
  South America
Venezuela (U) [151]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahara regional transition zone - bushland and thicket. [33];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [106, 111, 151, 2021, 2023, 3391] ; Illustration [111, 141, 149, 3391]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [151] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Herb [151], Shrub ; Lifespan: Annual [151], Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P, 2005 (CIS) Roskov Yu, SytinA, YakovlevG (SJ2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [1939, 2021, 2023, 3391]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

11.

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

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)

149.

  Valenti, G.S., 1971
    Webbia 26:1-99. Adumbr.Fl.Aeth.;Caesalpin; gen.Cassia.

151.

  Irwin, H.S. & Barneby, R.C., 1982
    Mem.New York Bot.Gard.35:1-918[in 2 parts]American Cassiinae

153.

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

239.

  Bavazzano, R., 1972
    Webbia 26:267-364. Contrib. fl. Terr.Fr.degli Afar e d.Issa

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.

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

3017.

  Shah, G.L., 1978
    Flora of Gujarat State Vol.1

3020.

  Singh, N.P., 1988
    Flora of Eastern Karnataka Vol.1

3027.

  Nair, N.C. & Henry, A.N., 1983
    Flora of Tamil Nadu, India Vol.1

3094.

  Rao, R.S., 1985
    Flora of Goa, Diu, Daman, Dadra & Nagarhaveli Vol 1

3113.

  Ramachandran, V.S. & Nair, V.J., 1988
    Flora of Cannanore

3377.

  Sharma, M., 1990
    Punjab Plants Check-list

3384.

  Pullaiah, T. & Yesoda, N., 1989
    Flora of Anantapur District (Andhra Pradesh, India)

3391.

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

4145.

  Drobov, V.P., 1955
    In:Flora Uzbekistanica, Vol.3. Taschkent. (Rus)

4169.

  Gadzhiev, V.D. & Musaev, S.G., 1994
    Information from BAK Herbarium (Baku, Azerbaijan).
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