Senna didymobotrya
Winged Senna ( Senna didymobotrya )
The Winged Senna ( Senna didymobotrya, syn. Cassia didymobotrya L. ) is a shrub of the legume family ( Fabaceae ). The plant originated in Africa.
Description
The Winged Senna is an evergreen. It grows as a shrub to small tree, reaching heights of growth usually up to 3 m, rarely up to 6 meters. Young shoots are easily beflaumt. The dark green leaves are pinnate with 8-21 pairs of leaflets; The leaves are 2-5 cm long with oblique leaf base; they are ovate to oblong and somewhat pointed.
The flowers are golden yellow. The unopened flower buds are dark brown. The flowers are in slender, erect, racemose inflorescences up to 45 cm in length. The fruit pods are green at first and then turn brown; they are easy beflaumt and flat; the sleeve is about 10 cm long and 2 cm wide.
Distribution and location
The home of the Winged Senna is in tropical Africa. Its distribution area extends across Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
In southern North America, southern Africa and Australia, it has now been naturalized.
System
First, this type in 1839 was described as Cassia didymobotrya by Johann Baptist Georg Wolfgang Fresenius. The currently valid first description by Howard Samuel Irwin and Rupert Charles Barneby under the species name didymobotrya Senna was released in 1982; hence, the classification in the genus Senna, a relatively new knowledge.
Other synonyms next to Cassia Cassia didymobotrya are nairobensis LH Bailey, L. H. Cassia nairobiensis Bailey and Cassia verdickii De Wild ..