Taxon: Senna obtusifolia (L.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*, MD°, MS°, NC(as Cassia obtusifolia)°, OK(as Cassia obtusifolia)*°, TN(as Cassia obtusifolia)°, VA°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• American sicklepod   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• coffee-weed   (Source: F Florida ) – English
  
• Java-bean   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• sicklepod   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sicklepod senna   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• dormidera   (Source: F WIndies Online ) – Spanish (Caribbean)
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Noxweed Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Missouri
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe - St. Barthelemy; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador - Guayas, Los Rios, Napo; Peru - Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martin, Ucayali
  Southern South America: Argentina - Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, Misiones, Salta, Tucuman; Paraguay

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Libya
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  Western Asia: Iraq
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Indonesia - Irian Jaya, Java; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [s.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• exact native range obscure

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• CalFlora Database Project. CalFlora: a botanical resource for California on the internet (on-line resource).
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [= Cassia tora].
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• International Legume Database & Information Service. International Legume Database and Information Service (on-line resource).
• Irwin, H. S. & R. C. Barneby. 1982. The American Cassiinae: a synoptical revision of Leguminosae tribe Cassieae subtribe Cassiinae in the New World. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35:252–255.
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lewis, G. P. & P. E. Owen. 1989. Legumes of the Ilha de Maraca.
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. 1988. Cassia sens. lat. (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 43:340.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Randell, B. R. 1988. Revision of the Cassiinae in Australia. 1. Senna Miller sect. Chamaefistula (Colladon) Irwin and Barneby. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 11:45.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Senna obtusifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Senna obtusifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Senna obtusifolia.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cassia obtusifolia L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Senna obtusifolia (L.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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