Senna pendula |
Senna roemeriana |
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climbing cassia, valamuerto |
Roemer senna, twoleaf senna, twoleaf wild sensitive plant |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, to 0.7 m. Leaves slightly sclerophyllous, 2.5–9.5 cm, hairy; stipules caducous; extrafloral nectary 1, between leaflet pair, shortly stipitate; leaflet pairs 1, blades lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate, 20–70 × 4–14 mm. | |
Racemes | 1–5-flowered; bracts caducous. |
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Pedicels | 9–16 mm. |
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Flowers | monosymmetric; calyx caducous, pale green; corolla yellow or orange-yellow, longest petal 12–17 mm; androecium not heterantherous, stamens 7, staminodes 3; anthers 2.2–3.3 mm, dehiscing by 1 apical pore, apical appendage 0; gynoecium nearly linear, ovules 22–40; ovary densely hairy; style slightly incurved. |
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Legumes | erect, subcylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 20–35 × 4.5–6.5 mm, corrugated over seeds, dehiscing apically downward. |
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Seeds | brown or pinkish brown, paddle-shaped or pyriform. |
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Senna | pendula is often confused with close relative S. bicapsularis, which is absent from North America and has shorter pedicels, only to 5 mm (H. |
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s | . Irwin and R. |
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c | . |
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Barneby | 1982; B. |
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Marazzi | et al. |
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2006b | ). |
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2n | = 28. |
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Senna pendula |
Senna roemeriana |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early fall. | |
Habitat | Mesquite grasslands, chaparral, draws in shortgrass prairies, barren hillsides, desert washes, roadsides. | |
Elevation | 100–2000 m. (300–6600 ft.) | |
Distribution |
Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced, Florida; introduced also in Africa (South Africa), Pacific Islands, Australia]
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NM; OK; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León)
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Discussion | Varieties 18–20 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade) > Senna | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade) > Senna |
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Synonyms | Cassia pendula, Chamaefistula pendula | Cassia roemeriana, Earleocassia roemeriana |
Name authority | (Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) H. S. Irwin & Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35: 378. (1982) | (Scheele) H. S. Irwin & Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35: 282. (1982) |
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