List of Senna species

As of July 2024, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species of Senna:[1]

A

  • Senna acanthoclada (Griseb.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Argentina)
  • Senna acatlanensis C.Rojas-Mart. & A.Delgado (Mexico)
  • Senna acclinis (F.Muell.) Randell – rainforest cassia, brush senna (New South Wales)
  • Senna aciphylla (Benth. ex A.Gray) Randell – sprawling senna, Australian senna (eastern Australia)
  • Senna aculeata (Pohl ex Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (South America)
  • Senna acunae (Borhidi) A.Barreto & Yakovlev (Cuba)
  • Senna acuparata H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Ecuador, Peru)
  • Senna acuruensis (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Brazil)
  • Senna acutisepala (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Brazil)
  • Senna affinis (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Bolivia, Brazil)
  • Senna alata (L.) Roxb. – candlebush, Christmas candle (South America, Central America)
  • Senna alexandrina Mill. – Alexandrian senna (North Africa, India, Pakistan)
  • Senna andrieuxii (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Mexico)
  • Senna angulata (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Brazil)
  • Senna angustisiliqua (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Caribbean Islands)
  • Senna ankaranensis Du Puy & R.Rabev. (Madagascar)
  • Senna anthoxantha (Capuron) Du Puy (Madagascar)
  • Senna aphylla (Cav.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Argentina)
  • Senna apiculata (M.Martens & Galeotti) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Mexico, Argentina)
  • Senna appendiculata (Vogel) Wiersema (Brazil)
  • Senna apsidoneura (H.S.Irwin & Barneby) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Bolivia)
  • Senna araucarietorum H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Brazil)
  • Senna argentea (Kunth) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Mexico)
  • Senna arida (Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Mexico)
  • Senna aristeguietae H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Brazil, Venezuela)
  • Senna armata (S.Watson) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Arizona, California, Mexico Northwest, Nevada)
  • Senna arnottiana (Gillies) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Argentina, Chile)
  • Senna artemisioides (Gaudich. ex DC.) Randell – silver cassia (Australia)
  • Senna atomaria (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Mexico to Venezuela, Caribbean)
  • Senna aurantia (Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Peru)
  • Senna auriculata (L.) Roxb. – avaram, Matara-tea, tanner's cassia (Indian subcontinent, Myanmar)
  • Senna aversiflora (Herb.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Brazil)
  • Senna aymara H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Bolivia)

B

  • Senna baccarinii (Chiov.) Lock
  • Senna bacillaris (L.f.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – West Indian showertree
  • Senna bahiensis A.G.Lima & V.C.Souza
  • Senna barclayana (Sweet) Randell – smooth senna, pepper-leaf senna (eastern Australia)
  • Senna barnebyana Lass.
  • Senna barronfieldii (Colla) Hewson – southern cassia (eastern Australia)
  • Senna bauhinioides (A.Gray) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna benitoensis (Britton & P.Wilson) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna bicapsularis (L.) Roxb. – rambling senna, Christmas bush, money bush, yellow candlewood
  • Senna biglandularis A.O.Araujo & V.C.Souza
  • Senna birostris (Dombey ex Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna bosseri Du Puy & R.Rabev.
  • Senna bracteosa D.B.O.S.Cardoso & L.P.Queiroz
  • Senna brongniartii (Gaudich.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna burkartiana (Villa) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

C

  • Senna cajamarcae H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cana (Nees & Mart.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna candolleana (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cardiosperma (F.Muell.) Randell (western Australia)
  • Senna catingae (Harms) L.P.Queiroz
  • Senna caudata (Standl.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cearensis Afr.Fern.
  • Senna centranthera H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cernua (Balb.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna charlesiana (Symon) Randell (Western Australia)
  • Senna chloroclada (Harms) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna chrysocarpa (Desv.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna circinnata (Benth.) Randell – coiled senna (eastern Australia)
  • Senna cladophylla (W.Fitzg.) Randell (northern Australia)
  • Senna clavigera (Domin) Randell – pepper leaf senna (eastern Australia)
  • Senna cobanensis (Britton) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna coimbrae M.Nee & Barneby
  • Senna collicola H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna confinis (Greene) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna corifolia (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cornigera H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna coronilloides (Benth.) Randell – brigalow senna (eastern Australia)
  • Senna corymbosa (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – Argentine senna, Argentine wild sensitive plant
  • Senna costata (J.F.Bailey & C.T.White) Randell (northern Australia)
  • Senna covesii (A.Gray) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – Coues' cassia, Coves' cassia, desert senna
  • Senna crassiramea (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna crotalarioides (Kunth) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cruckshanksii (Hook. & Arn.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cuatrecasasii H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cumingii (Hook. & Arn.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna curvistyla (J.M.Black) Randell (north-western Australia)
  • Senna cushina (J.F.Macbr.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna cuthbertsonii (F.Muell.) Randell (northern Western Australia)

D

  • Senna dardanoi Afr.Fern. & P.Bezerra
  • Senna dariensis (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna davidsonii (V.Singh) V.Singh
  • Senna demissa (Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – candelabra-tree, peanut butter cassia, African senna
  • Senna divaricata (Nees & Blume) Lock
  • Senna divaricata (Nees & Blume) Lock
  • Senna domingensis (Spreng.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna dryadica A.G.Lima & Mansano
  • Senna durangensis (Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

E

  • Senna ellisiae (Brenan) Lock

F

  • Senna ferraria (Symon) Randell (north-western Western Australia)
  • Senna flexuosa (Randell) Randell (Western Australia)
  • Senna × floribunda (Cav.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna foetidissima (Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna formosa H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna franciscana A.G.Lima & Mansano
  • Senna fruticosa (Mill.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

G

  • Senna galeottiana (M.Martens) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna gardneri (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna garrettiana (Craib) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna gaudichaudii (Hook. & Arn.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – climbing cassia, heuhiuhi (Pacific Islands, Queensland)
  • Senna georgica H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna glaucifolia (Randell) Randell (north-western Australia)
  • Senna gloriosa (H.S.Irwin & Barneby) A.G.Lima & Mansano
  • Senna glutinosa (DC.) Randell (Australia)
  • Senna goniodes (A.Cunn. ex Benth.) Randell (northern Western Australia)
  • Senna gossweileri (Baker f.) Lock
  • Senna guatemalensis (Donn.Sm.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna gundlachii (Urb.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

H

  • Senna hamersleyensis (Symon) Randell – creeping senna (northern Western Australia)
  • Senna harleyi H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna haughtii (J.F.Macbr.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna hayesiana (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna hebecarpa (Fernald) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – American senna, wild senna
  • Senna heptanthera Randell (Arnhem Land)
  • Senna herzogii (Harms) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna hilariana (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna hirsuta (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – woolly senna (native to Americas, introduced elsewhere)
  • Senna holosericea (Fresen.) Greuter
  • Senna holwayana (Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna hookeriana Batke
  • Senna huancabambae (Harms) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna huidobriana (Phil.) Zoellner & San Martin
  • Senna huilana (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna humifusa (Brenan) Lock

I

  • Senna incarnata (Pav. ex Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna insularis (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna intermedia (B.D.Sharma, Vivek. & Rathakr.) V.Singh
  • Senna italica Mill. – Port Royal senna, dog senna, Italian senna, Spanish senna
  • Senna itatiaiae H.S.Irwin & Barneby

J

  • Senna juchitanensis Saynes & R.Torres

K

  • Senna koelziana H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna kuhlmannii Hoehne
  • Senna kurtzii (Harms) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

L

  • Senna lactea (Vatke) Du Puy
  • Senna lasseigniana H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna latifolia (G.Mey.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna leandrii (Ghesq.) Du Puy
  • Senna lechriosperma H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna leiophylla (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna leptoclada (Benth.) Randell (Northern Territory)
  • Senna ligustrina (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – privet senna
  • Senna lindheimeriana (Scheele) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – velvet-leaf senna, showy senna
  • Senna longiglandulosa (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna longiracemosa (Vatke) Lock
  • Senna loretensis (Killip & J.F.Macbr.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna lourteigiana H.S.Irwin & Barneby

M

  • Senna macranthera (DC. ex Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna macrophylla (Kunth) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna magnifolia (F.Muell.) Randell (Western Australia)
  • Senna malaspinae H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna mandonii (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna manicula (Symon) Randell (Western Australia)
  • Senna marilandica (L.) Link
  • Senna martiana (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna mensicola (H.S.Irwin & Barneby) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna meridionalis (R.Vig.) Du Puy – Madagascar senna
  • Senna mexicana (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – Mexican senna
  • Senna mollissima (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna monilifera H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna monozyx (H.S.Irwin & Barneby) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna montana (B.Heyne ex Roth) V.Singh
  • Senna morongii (Britton) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna mucronifera (Mart. ex Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna multifoliolata (Paul G.Wilson) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – glandular senna, downy senna (Central and Southern America, introduced elsewhere)
  • Senna multijuga (Rich.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – November shower, false sicklepod (Central and Southern America, introduced elsewhere)
  • Senna mutisiana (Kunth) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

N

  • Senna nana (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna neglecta (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna nicaraguensis (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna nitida (Rich.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna notabilis (F.Muell.) Randell – cockroach bush (Australia)
  • Senna nudicaulis (Burkart) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

O

  • Senna obliqua (G.Don) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Peru)
  • Senna oblongifolia (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – coffee-weed, java-bean, American sicklepod (Central and Southern America, introduced elsewhere)
  • Senna occidentalis (L.) Link – coffee senna, styptic weed, septicweed (U.S.A., Central and Southern America, introduced elsewhere)
  • Senna oligoclada (F.Muell.) Randell (Northern Australia)
  • Senna orcuttii (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – Orcutt's senna
  • Senna organensis (Glaz. ex Harms) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna oxyphylla (Kunth) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

P

  • Senna pachyrrhiza (L.Bravo) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna pallida (Vahl) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna papillosa (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna paposana (Phil.) Zoellner & San Martin
  • Senna paradictyon (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna paraensis (Ducke) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna pendula (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – Easter cassia
  • Senna pentagonia (Mill.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna peralteana (Kunth) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna perrieri (R.Vig.) Du Puy
  • Senna petersiana (Bolle) Lock
  • Senna phlebadenia H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna phyllodinea (R.Br.) Symon (arid areas of Australia)
  • Senna pilifera (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna pilocarina (Symon) Randell (Western Australia)
  • Senna pilosior (B.L.Rob.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby — Trans-Pecos senna
  • Senna pinheiroi H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna pistaciifolia (Kunth) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna planitiicola (Domin) Randell
  • Senna pleurocarpa (F.Muell.) Randell – stripe-pod cassia
  • Senna pluribracteata F.S.Souto & R.T.Queiroz
  • Senna pneumatica H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna podocarpa (Guill. & Perr.) Lock
  • Senna polyantha (Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna polyphylla (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna praeterita H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna procumbens Randell
  • Senna pumilio (A.Gray) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – dwarf senna
  • Senna punoensis Lass.
  • Senna purpusii (Brandegee) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

Q

  • Senna quinquangulata (Rich.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

R

  • Senna racemosa (Mill.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – limestone senna
  • Senna reniformis (G.Don) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna reticulata (Willd.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna rigidicaulis (Burkart ex L.Bravo) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna ripleyana (H.S.Irwin & Barneby) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – Ripley's senna
  • Senna rizzinii H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna robiniifolia (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna roemeriana (Scheele) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – twoleaf senna, Roemer senna
  • Senna rostrata (Mart.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – New Mexico wild sensitive plant
  • Senna rugosa (G.Don) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna ruiziana (G.Don) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna rupununiensis H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna ruspolii (Chiov.) Lock

S

  • Senna saeri (Pittier) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna sandwithiana H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna santanderensis (Britton & Killip) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna scabriuscula (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna scandens (Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna septemtrionalis (Viv.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – arsenic-bush, dooleyweed, laburnum, smooth senna
  • Senna sericea (Symon) Albr. & Symon
  • Senna siamea (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby – kassodtree, Siamese cassia, Thai cassia, Thailand shower
  • Senna silvestris (Vell.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna singueana (Delile) Lock
  • Senna skinneri (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna smithiana (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna sophera (L.) Roxb.
  • Senna sousana H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna spectabilis (DC.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna spinescens (Hoffmanns. ex Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna spiniflora (Burkart) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna spinigera (Rizzini) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna splendida (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna stenophylla (Britton) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna stipulacea (W.T.Aiton) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna stowardii (S.Moore) Randell (W.A.)
  • Senna stricta (Randell) Randell (W.A., N.T.)
  • Senna suarezensis (Capuron) Du Puy
  • Senna subtrijuga H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna subulata (Griseb.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna sulfurea (DC. ex Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna surattensis (Burm.f.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna symonii (Randell) Randell

T

  • Senna talpana H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna tapajozensis (Ducke) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna tenuifolia (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna timoriensis (DC.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna tocotana (Rose ex Britton & Killip) Silverst.
  • Senna tonduzii (Standl.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna tora (L.) Roxb. – sickle senna, foetid cassia
  • Senna trachypus (Mart. ex Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna trianae H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna trolliiflora H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna tropica (Vell.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna truncata (Brenan) Lock
  • Senna tuhovalyana (Aké Assi) Lock

U

  • Senna uncata H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna undulata (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna uniflora (Mill.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna unijuga (Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna urmenetae (Phil.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

V

  • Senna vargasii (Schery) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna velutina (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna venusta (F.Muell.) Randell – graceful senna (W.A., N.T., Qld.)
  • Senna versicolor (Meyen ex Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna viarum (Little) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna viciifolia (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna viguierella (Ghesq.) Du Puy
  • Senna villosa (Mill.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna viminea (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

W

  • Senna weddelliana H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna williamsii (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna wislizeni (A.Gray) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
  • Senna wurdackii H.S.Irwin & Barneby – Wislizenus' senna, shrubby senna

References

  1. ^ "Senna". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 June 2023.