Kannada Name : | - |
Common Name : | Mountain cassia |
Family Name : | Fabaceae |
Scientific Name : | Senna montana |
Species Type : | Indigenous |
Phenology : | Evergreen |
Conservation Status : | Not known |
Flowering Period : | November - January |
Fruiting Period : | November - January |
Origin : | India |
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Large shrubs to small trees, up to 4 m tall, young shoots yellow tomentose. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; leaflets oblong or elliptic, base rounded, apex obtuse to mucronate, margin entire. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal corymbose panicle. Flowers bisexual, yellow. Fruit compressed, beaked, ovoid, longitudinal.