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Senna singueana (Delile)Lock

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HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Senna Mill.

Senna singueana (Delile)Lock [Preferred name]
    Cassia goratensis Fresen. {Synonym}
    Cassia singueana Delile {Synonym}
    Cassia sinqueana Delile {Synonym}
    Cassia zanzibarensis Vatke {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [113]; Burkina (N) [8]; Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [111]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [111]; Ghana (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Kenya (N) [106]; Malawi (N) [113]; Mali (N) [11]; Namibia (N) [107]; Niger (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [113]; Zambia (N) [113]; Zimbabwe (N) [113]
  Indian Ocean
Comoro Is (N) [106]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [106];
    Sudanian woodland [106];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [106];
    Zambezian wooded grassland [106];
    Zambezian woodland [106];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; scrub woodland. [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 106, 113] ; Illustration [10, 106, 149]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Chemical products [121]; Medicine [52]; Toxins [52]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

  Keay, R.W.J. et al., 1964
    Nigerian Trees Vol.2

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

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

52.

  Verdcourt, B. & Trump, E.C., 1969
    Common Poisonous Plants of East Africa

64.

  Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
    IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

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.

111.

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

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.
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