False Sicklepod
Senna multijuga
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh & more
How to identify False Sicklepod
Identify False Sicklepod by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Many pairs of leaflets per leaf.
- Confirm leaf type: Pinnately compound.
- Confirm leaf shape: Elliptic.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Panicle.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Senna multijuga
- Genus
- Senna
- Family
- Caesalpiniaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compoundrecordedLeaflets are arranged in rows along a central stalk, like a feather.“The leaves are pinnate with 10 to 37 pairs of linear to elliptic leaflets 15–45 mm (0.59–1.77 in) long and 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) wide.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- EllipticrecordedWidest at the middle, tapering evenly at both ends.“The leaves are pinnate with 10 to 37 pairs of linear to elliptic leaflets 15–45 mm (0.59–1.77 in) long and 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) wide.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for False Sicklepod itself; the rest are typical of the Caesalpiniaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- PaniclerecordedA branching cluster of clusters.“The flowers are yellow and arranged on the ends of branchlets in racemes of three to sixteen panicles, the lowest panicles with at least five flowers.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Legume
Characters marked “recorded” are for False Sicklepod itself; the rest are typical of the Caesalpiniaceae family — flowering plants only.
About False Sicklepod
A member of the Caesalpiniaceae family, False Sicklepod (Senna multijuga) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and 1 other states.
Uses
In practice it is planted as an ornamental and valued as a shade and avenue tree.
Caesalpiniaceae
Senna family
False Sicklepod belongs to the Caesalpiniaceae family.
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