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Fabaceae

Wild cassia

Senna singueana (Delile) Lock

Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Senna

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Wild cassia: Growing on the side of a granite outcrop, from a large termite mound northern side of Goose Bay Lake Kyle/Mutirikwi, south-eastern Zimbabwe
Photo: Arthur Murray Harmsworth, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (4)
Afrikaans
Kleefpeul
English
Wild cassia, Winter-flowering senna
Hausa
Runfu
Shona
Musvayanyoka

Synonyms

  • Cassia goratensis Fresen.
  • Cassia goratensis var. flavescens Hutch. ex Baker f.
  • Cassia goratensis var. glabra Hutch. ex Baker f.
  • Cassia goratensis var. kethulleana (De Wild.) Ghesq.
  • Cassia kethulleana De Wild.
  • Cassia sabak Delile
  • Cassia singueana Delile
  • Cassia singueana var. flavescens (Hutch. ex Baker f.) Brenan
  • Cassia singueana var. glabra (Hutch. ex Baker f.) Brenan
  • Cassia singueana var. kethulleana (De Wild.) Ghesq.
  • Cassia sinqueana Delile
  • Cassia tettensis Bolle
  • Cassia zanzibarensis Vatke

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.