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Cassia occidentalis L.

Synonym: Senna occidentalis (L.) Link
Cassia occidentalis L.
Cassia occidentalis L.
Cassia occidentalis L.
Cassia occidentalis L.
Cassia occidentalis L.
Cassia occidentalis L.
Cassia occidentalis L.
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🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
Assamese
  • Hant-thenga
Bengali
  • Kalkashunda
Gujarati
  • Kasundri
Hindi
  • Bari Kasondi
  • Kasaunda
  • Kasunda
Kannada
  • Kolthogache
Malayalam
  • Mattantakara
Marathi
  • Kasivda
  • Kasoda
  • Rankasvinda
  • Ran-takda
Oriya
  • Kasundri
Other
  • Bamanan
  • Coffee Senna
  • Coffeeweed
  • Negro Coffee
  • Thagarai
Sanskrit
  • Arimarda
  • Kasamarda
  • Vimarda
Tamil
  • Nattam Takarai
  • Payaverai
  • Payaveri
Telugu
  • Thangedu
Urdu
  • Kasonji
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Diagnostic Keys
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📚 Natural History
Morphology
Field Tips

Foetid when broken. Globose glands at the base of the leaf.

Flower

In axillary and terminal corymbose racemes, yellow. Flowering throughout the year.

Fruit

A pod, short, flat, compressed, brown when mature. Seeds many, compressed, brown. Fruiting throughout the year.

Leaf Apices

Apiculate

Leaf arrangement

Alternate distichous

Leaf Bases

Rotund

Leaf Margins

Entire

Leaf Shapes

Oblong

Leaf Types

Paripinate

Habit

A small shrub.

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    Miscellaneous Details
    Preferred food plant of Emigrant butterflies. Bark, leaves and seeds used in traditional medicine.
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      📚 Habitat and Distribution
      General Habitat
      Gregarious weed of wastelands. Plains upto 900m. Pantropical, probably originating in tropical America.
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        📚 Occurrence
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        📚 Uses and Management
        Uses
        Tender leaves cooked and eaten.
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          📚 Information Listing

          Invasive Alien Plant Species in the Roadside Areas of Jorhat , Assam : Their Harmful Effects and Beneficial Uses .

          Mayur Bawri
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          📚 Meta data
          🐾 Taxonomy
          📊 Temporal Distribution
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