Senna multiglandulosa

(Jacq.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

FabaceaeLeavesPotential hazards — see below

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Leaves, Caution

Young leaves are cooked and eaten.

Known Hazards

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It can grow in arid places.

Africa, Bolivia, East Africa, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Southern Africa, South America*,

Countries: Angola, Argentina, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Chile, Cameroon, Colombia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, French Guiana, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Paraguay, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

A tropical shrub in the Fabaceae family that grows in both tropical and arid environments and is cultivated.

Wikipedia

Source ↗

Senna multiglandulosa, commonly known as glandular senna, downy senna, or buttercup bush is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to Mexico, Guatemala, and western parts of South America. It is a shrub with pinnate leaves, usually with six to eight pairs of linear to lance-shaped leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in groups of ten to twenty, with seven fertile stamens in each flower. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant and in some areas of the world has become naturalized.

Other Information

It is cultivated.

Notes

Also as Caesalpinaceae.

Names & Synonyms

Cassia tomentosa L. f.

References (3)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 26th April 2011]
Torre, de la, L., et al, 2008, Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador. Herbario QCA. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p 360
World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew