Senna hirsuta - Woolly Cassia
❏ Binomial Name : Senna hirsuta (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby
❏ Synonym : Cassia hirsuta, Senna hirsuta var. hirsuta, Cassia tomentosa
❏ Family : Leguminosae
❏ Common Name : Woolly Cassia
❏ Tamil Name : Malaiyavaram
Senna hirsuta Botanical Description
Erect undershrubs, densely hirsute all over. Leaves to 18 cm long, usually with 3-5 pairs of leaflets; ovate or elliptic, base rounded, apex acuminate, silky hairy on both sides; rachis 8-12 cm long, a large black gland on the rachis just below the lowest leaflets; stipules 5-8 mm long, linear-lanceolate. Flowers yellow, in axillary and terminal few-flowered racemes; pedicels 1-1.4 cm long; bracts linear. Sepals 5, oblong, densely hairy without. Petals 5, obovate, obtuse. Stamens 10 , unequal, 6 or 7 fertile. Ovary tomentose; ovules many; style glabrous. Pods linear, subterete, curved, densely hirsute. Seeds many, orbicular, compressed, light brown.
Senna hirsuta Medicinal uses
❀ The leaves are used medicinally for treating kidney disorders and herpes
❀ An infusion of the leaves is applied externally to treat skin disorders and cracked nipples
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