Senna roemeriana |
Senna ripleyana |
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Roemer senna, twoleaf senna, twoleaf wild sensitive plant |
Ripley's senna |
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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. | Herbs, perennial, to 0.2 m. Leaves slightly sclerophyllous, 1–5 cm, hairy; stipules persistent; extrafloral nectary 1, between leaflet pair, stipitate; leaflet pairs 1, blades oblong-elliptic or obliquely obovate-elliptic, 6–20 × 3–10 mm. |
Racemes | 1–5-flowered; bracts caducous. |
1(or 2)-flowered; bracts caducous. |
Pedicels | 9–16 mm. |
5–10 mm. |
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. |
monosymmetric; calyx caducous, yellowish to pale green; corolla yellow or orange-yellow, longest petal 8.5–9 mm; androecium not heterantherous, stamens 7, staminodes 3; anthers 3–3.5 mm, dehiscing by 1 apical pore, apical appendage 0; gynoecium nearly linear, ovules 18–28; ovary densely hairy; style incurved, linear, 3–3.5 mm. |
Legumes | erect, subcylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 20–35 × 4.5–6.5 mm, corrugated over seeds, dehiscing apically downward. |
erect, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 13–24 × 5–8 mm, slightly corrugated over seeds, dehiscing apically downward. |
Seeds | brown or pinkish brown, paddle-shaped or pyriform. |
pinkish brown, olive green, or ochre, pyriform. |
2n | = 28. |
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Senna roemeriana |
Senna ripleyana |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early fall. | Flowering mid summer–early fall. |
Habitat | Mesquite grasslands, chaparral, draws in shortgrass prairies, barren hillsides, desert washes, roadsides. | Gravelly, desert hilltops and flats. |
Elevation | 100–2000 m. (300–6600 ft.) | 1400–1700 m. (4600–5600 ft.) |
Distribution |
NM; OK; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León)
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TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Zacatecas) |
Discussion | Senna ripleyana is one of three sennas in North America forming and sprouting from a woody taproot (the other species are S. bauhinioides and S. pumilio). The species appears to be rare (recorded from Brewster County), but perhaps it has been overlooked or misidentified as S. bauhinioides (H. S. Irwin and R. C. Barneby 1982). (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 roemeriana, Earleocassia roemeriana | Cassia ripleyana |
Name authority | (Scheele) H. S. Irwin & Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35: 282. (1982) | (H. S. Irwin & Barneby) H. S. Irwin & Barneby: Phytologia 44: 500. (1979) — (as ripleyi) |
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