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Senna tora; photograph (c) Raja Sekhar Chimirala, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Raja Sekhar Chimirala, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-07-28

Senna tora (L.) Roxb.

Sickle senna; Java-bean; Sicklepod; Sicklepod senna

Fabaceae · Belize, El Salvador

No habitat climate
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Summary

This page is about the Cassia tora described by Linnaeus. Later authors usually applied the taxon to Senna obtusifolia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Senna tora", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 1 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km. 1 of the 1 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBelize, El Salvador · introduced: Ukraine, Benin, Gambia, The, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Zaïre, Chad, Socotra, Sudan, Tanzania, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Primorye, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, China South-Central, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central, Qinghai, China Southeast, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Laccadive Is., Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., South China Sea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Philippines, Sumatera, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is., Cook Is., Marquesas, Society Is., Marianas, Alabama, Trinidad-Tobago · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual, perennial or subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 1627 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Raja Sekhar Chimirala, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Tim, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Senna 68 in the reference

Senna acclinis Senna acclinis Rainforest Cassia Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneySenna aciphylla Senna aciphylla Sprawling Cassia Photo: CC BY, Guy TaseskiSenna alata Senna alata Emperor's candlesticks Photo: CC BY, renjus boxSenna alexandrina Senna alexandrina Alexandrian senna Photo: CC BY, Karim HaddadSenna aphylla Senna aphylla Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Guillermo DebandiSenna armata Senna armata Desert senna Photo: CC BY, Jacob SaucierSenna arnottiana Senna arnottiana Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossSenna artemisioides Senna artemisioides Silver senna Photo: CC BY, Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）Senna atomaria Senna atomaria Flor de San Jose Photo: CC BY, Jose Luis Leon de la LuzSenna auriculata Senna auriculata Matara-tea Photo: CC BY, Rohit NaniwadekarSenna aymara Senna aymara Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Thomaz Ricardo Favreto SinaniSenna bacillaris Senna bacillaris Whitebark senna Photo: CC BY, scaup all 69 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cassia boreensis; Cassia borneensis; Cassia contorta; Cassia foetida; Cassia gallinaria and 19 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(L.) Roxb.
Native to
Belize, El Salvador
Wild records
1 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 9 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a herbarium, 4 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-221 in-range record, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 147 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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