Plant Details

Accepted name:

Senna alata (L.) Roxb. [Fabaceae]

Source of taxonomy and confidence:

World Checklist: unpublished records ( )

Information about this plant:

Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
agbobladzoe	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
alata	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
alata leaf	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
anechakka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
anjali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
asenti	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
bainsa	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
bajagua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
barajo	Other	Med. Plants for Diabetes in C. America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019)
bayisa	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
blefo sinogbetso	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
bois dartre	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
buisson de la gale	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
café-beirão	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
calavakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
calavakatticceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
candelabra bush	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
candle bush	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. used by Deb Barma Clan in Bangladesh (Kabir et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
candlebush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
candlestick senna	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
casse ailée	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
cassia alata leaf	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)
chakramarda	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
chi jia jue ming	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
christmas blossom	Other	Med. Pl. E. Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
christmas candle	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
christmas-candle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
cimaiakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cimaiyakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cimaiyavutti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cintuki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cintukiyakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cirikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
craw-craw plant	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008) Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
crawcraw plant	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
dadamardana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
daddumardu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dadmari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dadmordan	Other	Ethnobot. of the Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
dadmurdan	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dadpat	Other	MAPs in Makawanpur District, Central Nepal (Bhattarai et al., 2017)
dadrughna	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dahvala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dartres	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
dartrier	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
dat-ka-pat	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
datkapat	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
daud pata	Other	Med. Pl. used by Deb Barma Clan in Bangladesh (Kabir et al., 2014)
daudraj	Other	Ethnomed. of Garo Hills, Durgapur, Bangladesh (Khan et al., 2015)
deo-mardon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dhavala gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dhawala gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dodda chagache	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dodda thagache	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dodda thangadi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
doddacagate	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
doddachagate	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
doddasagate	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
duawusio	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
duawusu	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
dvipagasti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
elakajam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
emperor's candlesticks	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
empress-candleplant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
eth thora	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
eyanuba	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
ezinliba	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
fedegoso-gigante	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
fedegoso-grande	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
filasco	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
fleur st christophe	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
folium cassiae alatae	Pharmaceutical	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)
galves	Other	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019)
gelenggang besar	Other	Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)
gelinggang	Other	Med. Pl. Kalimantan (Caniago et al., 1998)
guajava	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
impetigo bush	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kacampakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
king of the forest	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
kislin	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
malai tagarai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mamúri	Other	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019)
mangerioba-do-pará	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
mangerioba-grande	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
manjeriobão	Other	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019)
mata pasto	Other	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019)
mata-pasto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
mettataamara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mettatamara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mitta tamara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mocoté	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
osempe	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
pailang	Other	Ethnobot. of the Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
pairavam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pairavamaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pei agathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
peyakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
plante des cros-cros	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
ponnakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
puliyacikacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
puliyacikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
puritappu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
purithappu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qanabisi	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
quatre épingles	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
rata tora	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
red head	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
ringworm bush	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007) Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
ringworm cassia	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015)
ringworm plant	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
ringworm senna	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ringworm shrub	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
ringwormbush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
ringwormshrub	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
ringworrn shrub	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
se	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
seema avise	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemaavasie	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemaavise	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemai agathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemai agathy	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemaiagatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemaiyagase	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemayavisa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seeme agase	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seeme thangadi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemie aghatee	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
semmai agatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
serocontil	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
seven golden candlesticks	Other	Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
seven-golden-candlesticks	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
sheemaavisi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sheemai-agatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sheemigida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shima-akatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shima-avishi-chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shimai-agatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shimayakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shime-agase	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sima avisl	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simaagati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simaavishi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simaavisi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simaiyagatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simayakatti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simayavisa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simayavise	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simeagase	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simeyagase	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simyagase	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
singobetso	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
sus saika	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
sus tara saik	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
sus waha tara	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
talantala	Other	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019)
tarantán	Other	Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019)
tatturukkinam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tiruttakattimaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tiruttavutti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vandu kolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vandu kollu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vandu-rolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vandugolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vandukolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vantukatiyilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vantukkolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vendu-kolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vendukolli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vilayati-agati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
winged senna	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
yamnua	Other	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
ඇත්තෝර	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
රටතෝර	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf		Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015)
Leaf		MAPs in Makawanpur District, Central Nepal (Bhattarai et al., 2017)
Leaves, Root, Seeds		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
leaf, fruit		Med. Pl. Kalimantan (Caniago et al., 1998)
leaves		Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
leaf	fresh or dried young leaflets	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
fruit, leaf		Med. Pl. E. Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
leaf		Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
leaf		Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007)
flower, leaf, root		Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
Leaf, Root, Fruit		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
leaves		Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

synonym
Cassia alata L. Sp. Pl.: 378 (1753).
Cassia alata var. perennis Pamp. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 14: 595 (1907).
Cassia alata var. rumphiana DC. Prodr. 2: 492 (1825).
Cassia arayatensis Náves ex Fern.-Vill. in F.M.Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed. 3, 4(13A): 71 (1880), nom. illeg.
Cassia bracteata L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 232 (1782).
Cassia herpetica Jacq. Observ. Bot. 2: 24 (1767), nom. superfl.
Herpetica alata (L.) Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 123 (1838).
Herpetica rumphiana (DC.) J.Presl Wobecný Rostl. 1: 457 (1846).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cassia alata	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Cassia alata L.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2015) Ethnomed. of Garo Hills, Durgapur, Bangladesh (Khan et al., 2015) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) MAPs in Makawanpur District, Central Nepal (Bhattarai et al., 2017) Malaysian Herbal Monograph, Vol. 1. (1999) Med. Pl. E. Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. Kalimantan (Caniago et al., 1998) Med. Plants for Diabetes in C. America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Medicinal plants in South Pacific (WHO, 1998) Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Trad. Aboriginal Meds in N. Territory (Barr et al., 1993) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Cassia alata Linn	Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Busia, 2007)
Senna alata	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Senna alata (L.) Roxb.	Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2015) Ethnobot. of the Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Fijian Medicinal Plants (Cambie & Ash, 1994) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. Pl. Trop. Africa (Schmelzer et al., 2008) Med. Pl. used by Deb Barma Clan in Bangladesh (Kabir et al., 2014) Med. Plants for Diabetes in C. America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Plants for Malaria, Plants for Fever (Milliken, 2019) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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