Common name
English: Arsenic bean, Coffeeweed, Stinking weed
French: Pois piante noir
German: Fedegoso, Mogdad-Kaffee, Stink-Kassie
Mandarin: 望江南 (wang jiang nan)
English: Arsenic bean, Coffeeweed, Stinking weed
French: Pois piante noir
German: Fedegoso, Mogdad-Kaffee, Stink-Kassie
Mandarin: 望江南 (wang jiang nan)
Kingdom: Plantae (2597)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2494)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2109)
Order: Fabales (237)
Family: Fabaceae (237)(family description)
Genus: Senna (6)
Epithet: occidentalis (L.)Link (3)
Synonyms: Cassia caroliniana Walter, Cassia ciliata Raf., Cassia falcata L., Cassia foetida Pers., Cassia macradenia Colladon, Cassia obliquifolia Schrank, Cassia occidentalis L., Cassia planisiliqua L., Ditramexa occidentalis Britton & Rose, Ditremexa occidentalis (L.) Britton & Wilson
caroliniana => from the Province of Carolina, a former colony of North America including the modern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and parts of modern Florida and Louisiana
ciliata => fringed, as with eyelashes
falcata => sickle shaped
foetida => evil smelling
macradenia => having large glands
obliquifolia => with slanting or asymmetrical leaves
occidentalis => western
Climate: tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: shrub
Flower colour: yellow
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