Kasaunda / Foetid Senna
Senna sophera
Also known as Senna Sophera, Pepper Leaved Senna
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Karnataka, Delhi & more
- Flowering
- July-January
How to identify Kasaunda
Identify Kasaunda by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a undershrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Foetid smell when crushed.
- Confirm leaf type: Pinnately compound (leaflets in rows along a stalk).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Corymb.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: July-January.
- In India, compare location records such as West Bengal, Karnataka, Delhi, Gujarat and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Senna sophera
- Genus
- Senna
- Family
- Caesalpiniaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Road sides, Margins of Deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Karnataka, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-January
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compound (leaflets in rows along a stalk)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kasaunda itself; the rest are typical of the Caesalpiniaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- CorymbrecordedA flat-topped cluster where outer flower stalks are longer than inner ones.“It has yellow flowers in corymbose racemes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Legume
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kasaunda itself; the rest are typical of the Caesalpiniaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- कसौंडा Kasaunda, कसौंडी Kasaundi
- Nepali
- ताप्रे Taapre
- Bengali
- কল্কাসুন্দা
- Tamil
- Poonaverie, ஞாழல்
- Kannada
- ಎಲಹುರಿ Elahuri, ಎಲೆಹುರಿ Elehuri, ಎರವುರಿ Eravuri
- Malayalam
- പൊന്നാന്തകര
- Marathi
- Kashawada
About Kasaunda
A member of the Caesalpiniaceae family, Foetid Senna (Senna sophera) is a low shrub. In India it has been recorded in West Bengal, Karnataka, Delhi and 9 other states. It grows in road sides, Margins of Deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from July to January.
Caesalpiniaceae
Senna family
Kasaunda belongs to the Caesalpiniaceae family.
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