Taxon: Senna occidentalis (L.) Link

Common names:

• antbush   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• coffee senna   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• negro-coffee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• septicweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• stinkingweed   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 16:111) – English
  
• bentamaré   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• café bâtard   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• café nège   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 16:111.) – French
  
• casse-café   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 16:111.) – French
  
• casse-puante   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – French
  
• seoggyeolmyeong   (Source: F Korea [as Cassia occidentalis]) – Transcribed Korean
  
• bricho   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• brusca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• frijolillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• guanina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:111. 2000)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:111. 2000)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:111. 2000)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:111. 2000)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Pl Res SEAs 16:111. 2000)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Cassia occidentalis; Lampe & McCann, as Cassia occidentalis; Pl Res SEAs 16:111. 2000)
  
• Social: stimulant   (fide Pl Res SEAs 16:111. 2000)
  
• Weed   (fide Noxweed Aust)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Senna occidentalis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Colima, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador - Esmeraldas, Los Rios, Manabi; Peru - Loreto, San Martin, Ucayali
  Southern South America: Argentina - Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman; Paraguay - Alto Paraguay, Amambay, Caaguazu, Caazapa, Central, Cordillera, Guaira, Neembucu, Paraguari, Presidente Hayes; Uruguay - Artigas, Montevideo, Paysandu, Rio Negro, Salto, Soriano

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Libya
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Djibouti; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique; Zambia
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Iran; Iraq; Lebanon
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar; Maldives
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Brunei; Christmas Island; Indonesia - Celebes, Irian Jaya, Java, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Sumatra; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia; Pitcairn
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Nauru; New Caledonia; Niue; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga

• also cultivated

• exact native range obscure

References:

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• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [= Cassia].
• 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.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• 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. 35:436.
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• Lock, J. M. 1988. Cassia sens. lat. (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 43:340.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Luckow, M. 1996. The cultivated species of Cassia, Senna, and Chamaecrista (Leguminosae). Baileya 23:226–227.
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• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:88. [= Cassia].
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. [= Cassia].
• Randell, B. R. 1988. Revision of the Cassiinae in Australia. 1. Senna Miller sect. Chamaefistula (Colladon) Irwin and Barneby. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 11:41.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Vossen, H. A. M. van der & M. Wessel, eds. 2000. Stimulants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 16:111.
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
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• 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 occidentalis.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Senna occidentalis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cassia occidentalis L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 23 accessions)

Check other web resources for Senna occidentalis (L.) Link:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• 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
• 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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