Senna

Senna mollissima (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

First published in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35: 592 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to Honduras, Ecuador to Bolivia. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Peru

Classification

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Publications

Publications used to compile the distribution and map:

  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2005 Vasquez, R.; Rojas, R.; Campos, L. [27152] Peru K000556599 Yes
Jan 1, 2005 Rojas, R.; Vasquez, R. [755] Peru K000556598 Yes
Jan 1, 1996 Comejo, X.; Bonifaz, C. [2947] Ecuador K000556596 Yes
Jan 1, 1996 Comejo, X.; Comejo, C.; Bonifaz, C. [3937] Ecuador K000556594 Yes
Jan 1, 1996 Comejo, X.; Bonifaz, C. [1920] Ecuador K000556590 Yes
Jan 1, 1996 Nuñez, Tamara; Yagual, E. [220] Ecuador K000556591 Yes
Jan 1, 1985 Broder Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz; Jaramillo, J.; Coello, F. [27893] Ecuador K001134085 Yes
Jan 1, 1980 Eggers, H. [15527] Ecuador K000556593 Yes
Bonifaz, C. [1072] Ecuador K000556592 Yes
Comejo, X.; Bonifaz, C. [5386] Ecuador K000556589 Yes
Pennington, T.D.; Daza, A. [16873] Peru K000556600 Yes
Holm-Nielsen, L.; Jaramillo, J.; Coello, F. [27885] Ecuador K000556597 Yes
Comejo, X.; Bonifaz, C. [5069] Ecuador K000556595 Yes

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • Copyright applied to individual images

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0