Senna uniflora

• Botanical Name : Senna uniflora (Mill.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
• Synonyms : Cassia uniflora Mill.
• Common Name : One Leaf Senna
• Plant Family : Caesalpiniaceae
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Senna uniflora Plant :

• Habit : An annual, woody, erect herbaceous leguminous plant with young branches appressedly hairy and old ones glabrous.
• Leaves : Pinnately compound, leaflets 3-5 pairs, ovate-lanceolate to oblanceolate, hairy on lower side, stipulate, stipules linear, bristle-like, persistent.
• Inflorescence : Racemes
• Flowers :
  • Yellow coloured, bracteates, bracts linear and hairy.
  • Sepals oblong-suborbicular, obtuse, outer hairy and inner side pubescent.
  • Petals yellow coloured, obovate and veined.
  • Stamens 7 fertile and 3 staminodes.
  • Ovary hairy, style pubescent.
• Fruit : Pods flat, 5-10 seeded, appressedly hairy and pointed at apex, constricted between the seeds.
• Seeds : Dark brown in colour, rhomboid or subquadrangular, glabrous.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : August - December