Distribution Map

Senna italica subsp. italica

(Cassia italica subsp. italica)

Fabaceae Caesalpinioideae Cassieae Cassiinae

(exotic - see Alien Plants Database)
Medicinal
Other uses

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Cassia italica - Straggling herbaceous plant, hairless throughout. Leaves widely spaced, wit c four pairs of almost stalkless oval-oblong leaflets c 3 cm long x 2 cm wide, slightly notched at tip. Inflorescence axillary, elongating, many-flowered, flowers shortly stalked, sepals free to base, c 6 mm long x 3 mm wide, petals spreading, yellow, c 1 cm long. Pods flat, papery, somewhat curved, c 3 cm long x 1,5 cm wide, with about seven seeds.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.