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Senna tora (Stinking Cassia; Casse Puante Petit Espece; Casse Puante Petite Espece; Foetid Cassia; Sickle Senna; Vaddutatakarai)

Synonyms:
Language: Hindi; Russian; Sinhala; Tibetan

Wikipedia Abstract

Senna tora (originally described by Linné as Cassia tora) is a legume in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Its name has been derived from Sinhala language, in which it is called Tora (තෝර). In Sri Lanka it is easily found in many places. It grows wild in most of the tropics and is considered a weed in many places; its native range is not well known but probably South Asia. It is often confused with Chinese senna or sicklepod, Senna obtusifolia. If it is given a distinct common name at all, it is called sickle wild sensitive-plant or sickle senna.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  The seeds (does this mean the pods?) are a source of tannin;
Height [1]  39 inches (1 m)
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Predators

Aspidiotus destructor (coconut scale)[3]
Catopsilia scylla (Orange emigrant butterfly)[4]
Eurema alitha[4]
Phoebis sennae (Cloudless giant sulpher)[4]
Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale)[3]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0