Senna papillosa(Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

WFO wfo-0000175306 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Senna papillosa, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. a Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-11-04 / obs. 75225628
Senna papillosa, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. b Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75225653
Senna papillosa, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. c Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75225659
Senna papillosa, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75225073
Senna papillosa, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. e Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75225632
Senna papillosa, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. f Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75225655

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
1747045
Filed as
Senna papillosa var. papillosa
Det. by
R. C. Barneby; H. S. Irwin 1977-01-01
Collected
G. K. W. H. Karsten
Origin
VE
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Senna papillosa is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Senna papillosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cassia papillosa (Britton & Rose) Standl.
  • Cassia rowleana (Britton & Rose) Standl.
  • Chamaefistula angusta Britton & Killip
  • Chamaefistula curranii Rose ex Britton & Killip
  • Chamaefistula fluviatilis Britton & Killip
  • Chamaefistula fluviatilis Britton & Rose
  • Chamaefistula nicaraguensis Britton
  • Chamaefistula nicaraguensis Britton & Rose
  • Chamaefistula papillosa Britton & Rose
  • Chamaefistula rowleana Britton & Rose

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.