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Senna nitida

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Richard) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Common Names

• Hediondilla

Geographical Habitats

• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA

Natural Habitats

• Dry forest
• disturbed areas
• secondary forest
• forest
• pasture

Flowering Times

• Oct-Dec )Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr

Scrambling shrub or woody vine with 5-angled branches, axillary racemes or panicles of 20mm dark yellow flowers, puberulent sepals to 6mm long, bright yellow etals to 20mm long, glabrous legume 180mm long x 15mm, pinnate glabrous or puberulent leaves to 200mm long, leaflets 100mm long

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• NAF