Coffee Weed

Senna occidentalis

Also known as Negro Coffee, Stinking weed, Coffee Senna, Foetid senna, Septicweed

UndershruboutdoorMedicinal

About Coffee Weed

Senna occidentalis, commonly known as coffee senna, styptic weed, or septicweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to the southern United States of America, Mexico and South America. It is a shrub with pinnate leaves, with three to seven pairs of broadly elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in groups of two to four, with six fertile stamens in each flower. It is an aggressive, pantropical weed.

Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Plant Details

Scientific name: Senna occidentalis
Genus: Senna
Family: CAESALPINIACEAE
Habit: Undershrub
Habitat: Margins of scrub forests, occasional in low elevations and roadsides
Native to: Tropical America
Distribution: Pantropical weed
Flowering & fruiting: July-February
Conservation status: Not Evaluated (NE)

Local Names

Hindi: Kasunda, Bari kasondi, कासौंदी
Nepali: कसौडी Kasaudee, ताप्रे Taapre, चकमके Chakamake
Bengali: Kalkashunda, কলকাসুন্দা
Tamil: Nattam takarai, Payaverai, காசூந்தி
Telugu: Thangedu, కాసున్దీ, కసింద
Kannada: ಕಸಿಂದಿ Kasindi, ಕೋಲ್ತೊಗಚೆ Kolthogache, ಆನೆ ಚೊಗಟೆ Aane chogate
Malayalam: Mattantakara, കാസുണ്ടി, ഊളൻ തകര
Marathi: Ran-takda, Kasivda, Kasoda

Botanical family

Caesalpiniaceae

Senna family

Coffee Weed belongs to the Caesalpiniaceae family.

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