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 Senna surattensis (Burm.f.)

Synonym	:	Senna speciosa Roxb. i
Family	:	Fabaceae
Local name	:	English-  Glaucous Cassia
Flowering and fruiting period	:	Throughout the year
Distribution	:	Native of South East Asia
Distribution in kerala	:	All Districts
Habitat	:	Cultivated
Uses	:	Ornamental purpose
Key botanical characters: Shrubs; branchlets ribbed, thinly pubescent. Leaves alternate rachis(including petiole) 8-20 cm long, ribbed; leaflets 6-10 pairs, ., strongly accrescent, elliptic or oblong to obovate-oblong, obtuse at apex, oblique at base, discolourous, glabrous or pubescent beneath. long as broad, secondary veins 6-9 pairs; petioles 2-4 cm long; stipules upto 1.5 cm long, linear-ensiform, inflexed, pubescent, subpersistent. cylindric-subclavate, stipitate, between lower 1 to 3 pairs of leaflets. Racemes 5 to 20-flowered, in the axils of upper leaves, corymbose; peduncles 2.5-8 cm long; pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm long, thinly pubescent; bracts ovate-lanceolateacute-acuminate, reflexed, persistent upto anthesis, with 2 subclavate glands. Sepals obtuse, pubescent outside in bud, outer 2 half the length of inner ones, inner ones 5-8 mm long. Petals ., yellow. Stamens 10, Pods ., strap-shaped, flat, thin-valved, sepatate, dark brown; seeds .brown, ., oblong, narrowed at hilum end, blackish.