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Senna petersiana (Bolle)Lock

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Senna Mill.

Senna petersiana (Bolle)Lock [Preferred name]
    Cassia petersiana Bolle {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Dwarf Cassia [107]; Eared Cassia [107]; Maniboa [3402]; Rindisindi [3402]; Sangaravatsy [3402]; Tsiambaravatsy [3402]; Tsileondoza [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [106]; Central African Rep. (N) [106]; Ethiopia (N) [106]; Kenya (N) [106]; Mozambique (N) [106]; Rwanda (N) [8]; South Africa (N) [106]; Sudan (N) [106]; Swaziland (N) [107]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zambia (N) [28]; Zimbabwe (N) [107]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (I) [106, 3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [106];
    Sudanian woodland [106];
    Zambezian wooded grassland [106];
    Zambezian woodland [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [106, 113, 3402] ; Illustration [10, 149, 410]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub [3402], Tree [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract [3402], 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [113, 121]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

10.

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

28.

  White, F., 1962
    Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

106.

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

107.

  Ross, J.H., 1982
    Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora Southern Africa 16,pt.1.Ross.J.H.

113.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1952
    Flore du Congo Belge,Vol.3. Mimosoideae, Caesalpinoideae

121.

  Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
    Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

149.

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

410.

  Onderstall, J., 1984
    Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment... South Afr.Wild Fl.Guide 4.

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.

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