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Senna pendula

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) H. Irwin & Barneby

Common Names

• Yellow Candle-wood
• Rambling Cassia
• Christmas Bush
• Casse Liane

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• W. Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• disturbed forest
• forest edge
• coastal
• secondary forest
• forest remnant
• inundated areas
• riverine forest
• savanna shrubs

Flowering Times

• Sep-Feb (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Mar (Nicaragua)

Semi-deciduous scrambling or weakly erect foetid shrub with axillary racemes of yellow to orange-yellow 26mm long flowers, 40mm wide, fruit a pubescent or glabrous torulose pod to 180mm long, pinnate leaves

Further References

• FOH
• NYBG
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus