- Family : CAESALPINIACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : IMLI FAMILY (ईमली फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
- Basionym : Cassia siamea Lam.
- Synonym(s) : Cassia florida Vahl
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Senna siamea (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
- Common name : Siamese Tree Senna, Ironwood tree, Siamese senna
- Vernacular name : Manja konnai, Sinnakennai, Kassod, Seemalauari, Manjakonnai (Tamil); Seema tangedu (Telugu); Manjakonna (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Planted and self sown
- Comments / notes : Occasional in plains to 1400m. Widely cultivated
- Key identification features : Moderate-sized tree
- Flower, Fruit : July-December
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Salem district
- Native : Southeast Asia
- World Distribution : SE. Asia, Widely planted
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Senna siamea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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