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Senna multijuga

Senna multijuga

(Gardner ) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
Pau-cigarra

Family: Fabaceae
Order: Fabales
Class: Magnoliopsida
Phylum / Division: Magnoliophyta
Kingdom: Plantae

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Description


Senna multijuga, known as November shower or false sicklepod, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to wet tropical areas of Latin America, and widely introduced to other tropical locales such as Africa, India, Indonesia, China, Australia, and Hawaii. A fast-growing tree typically tall, it is planted in restoration projects, as an ornamental, and as a street tree, being especially useful under power lines.

 Senna multijuga is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to , sometimes to and sometimes flowering precociously as a shrub only high. The leaves are pinnate with 10 to 37 pairs of linear to elliptic leaflets long and wide. There are linear or bristle-like stipules long at the base. There is a pair of glands between the lowest pairs of leaflets, but that fall off as the leaves open. The flowers are yellow and arranged on the ends of branchlets in racemes of three to sixteen panicles, the lowest panicles with at least five flowers. Each panicle is on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The five petals are long but differ from each other. The seven fertile stamens vary in length from long and there are three tiny staminodes. Flowering occurs from late summer to early autumn, and the fruit is a broadly linear pod long and wide containing thirty to sixty flattened seeds about long.

Taxonomy: This species was first formally described in 1792 by Louis Claude Richard who gave it the name Cassia multijuga in his Actes de la Societe D´ Histoire Naturelle de Paris. In 1982, Howard Samuel Irwin and Rupert Charles Barneby transferred the species to the genus Senna as S. multijuga in Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden.

Subtaxa: The following subtaxa are accepted:
  • Senna multijuga subsp. doylei – southwestern Mexico
  • Senna multijuga subsp. lindleyana – Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil
  • Senna multijuga subsp. multijuga – entire range, introduced to Old World Tropics
  • Senna multijuga var. peregrinatrix – Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil
  • Senna multijuga var. verrucosa – eastern Brazil


Distribution and habitat: Senna multijuga grows in disturbed forest, along watercourse and in gallery forest within savannah. It is native to northern parts of South America, and possibly Mexico, but is naturalised in many other countries, including India, parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, New Guinea and Australia. In Australia, it is restricted to Bellingen and Thora.

Source: Wikipedia, article Senna multijuga. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 18/07/2026.





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Morretes RPPN - Etambóia
Paraná
Brazil
03/12/2023
Rppn Etambóia



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
194467312/03/2023BrazilParanáMorretes RPPN - EtambóiaRppn Etambóia
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Senna multijuga – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 15/09/2026.