• 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 uniflora Mill.
• Synonym(s) : Cassia sericea Sw.; Senna sericea (Sw.) Albrecht & Symon
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Senna uniflora (Mill.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
• Common name : One-leaf Senna
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : wasteland, plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional in wasteland and along roadsides.
• Key identification features : An erect subshrub. Leaves are alternate, compound with glands between leaflets. Flowers are in short axillary bunches. Pod up to 3 cm. long, compressed and transversely septate, covered with hairs.
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collection Nos : KFP 9178
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district
  • Telangana : Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Alappuzha district, Thrissur district
• Native : Tropical South America and West Indies
• World Distribution : Introduced to the old World
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Pullaiah, T. & Karuppusamy, S., 2008. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 5; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 uniflora. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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