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Senna alata

Scientific name: Senna alata (L.) Roxb.
Synonym: Cassia alata L.
Botanical family: FABACEAE

Vernacular names

(In territories with significant traditional TRAMIL use)

Guatemala:

  • barajo

Dominican Republic:

  • guajabo

Martinique:

  • kasyalata

Venezuela:

  • majagüillo
  • tarantantán

St Vincent and Grenadines:

  • river grava
  • river senna

Trinidad and Tobago:

  • wild guava
  • wild senna

Other vernacular names

Botanical description

A short-lived shrub up to 3 m high.  Leaves alternate, compound pinnate, with 6-12 pairs of broadly oblong leaflets, blunt at the tip, unequal at the base, the terminal pair about 15 x 8 cm; inflorescence an axillary, compact raceme ca. 28 cm long; flowers golden yellow, subtended by a yellow-orange bract, 2.2 -2.5 cm long; pod 4-winged, 11-19 x 2-2.3 cm, black when ripe; seeds ca. 6 mm long, brown, angular, arranged transversely in the pod.

Voucher(s)

Delens,138,VEN

Longuefosse &Nossin,36,HAVPMC

Girón,154,CFEH

Jiménez,3528,JBSD

Balland,44,HVB

Delaigue,25,NHTT


Pharmacopoeia

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References

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