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Botanical Name: Senna alata
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Family: Caesalpiniaceae
Common Name: शिमई अगसे
Etymology - Genus: Latin form of Arabic word for a thorny bush
Etymology - Species: Winged
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Foreign
Location: Kanpur, Pune, Taljai Hill
Description: Perennial shrub that can grow in wasteland.Very long Unipinnate leaf with persistent spine like stipule. No glands.Paripinnate leaflets in about 10-12 pairs of pinna. Oblong leaflet with oblique base and emerginate apice. Rachis has a notch that runs between pinna.Yellow flowers are arranged very close to each other in raceme, look like a straight yellow candle.Filament is straight, less than 1 cm. Stamens varied in length. Style is light green, straight or curved.Characteristic winged pods, wings run throughout the length.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Shrub
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture:
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Perennial shrub that can grow in wasteland.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Pulvinus
Stipules: Curved
Leaf Type: Unipinnate-Paripinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Very long Unipinnate leaf with persistent spine like stipule. No glands.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Oblique
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Retuse
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate leaflets in about 10-12 pairs of pinna. Oblong leaflet with oblique base and emerginate apice. Rachis has a notch that runs between pinna.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Raceme
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Yellow flowers are arranged very close to each other in raceme, look like a straight yellow candle.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Zygomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Valvate
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Zygomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: 5 free petals
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Basifixed
Androecium Length of filament:
Androecium Union of Stamens: Free stamens
Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
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Gynoecium Union of Carpels:
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 1
Floral Parts Description: Filament is straight, less than 1 cm. Stamens varied in length. Style is light green, straight or curved.
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Characteristic winged pods, wings run throughout the length.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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