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

valamuerto

WFO wfo-0000164471 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Senna pendula, photographed by Elijah Magistrado
fig. a Elijah Magistrado, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-16 / obs. 188449755
Senna pendula, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. b Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186293975
Senna pendula, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. c Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183783597
Senna pendula, photographed by Will Cornwell
fig. d Will Cornwell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182543973
Senna pendula, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. e Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181353187
Senna pendula, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. f Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181387189
Senna pendula, photographed by Tom Field
fig. g Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169054825
Senna pendula, photographed by demianlescano
fig. h demianlescano, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166509466

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Senna pendula is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela
Native distribution of Senna pendula, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
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.

Flowering 347 in flower of 444 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Senna pendula observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 347 of 444 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 34 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.

  • Adipera arborea Britton & Killip
  • Adipera indecora (Kunth) Britton & Rose
  • Adipera ovalifolia Britton & Rose
  • Adipera ovalifolia (M.Martens & Galeotti) Britton & Rose
  • Adipera stahlii (Urb.) Britton & Rose
  • Adipera submontana Britton & Rose
  • Cassia bicapsularis f. pilosa Chodat & Hassl.
  • Cassia bicapsularis var. eriocarpa Griseb.
  • Cassia bicapsularis var. indecora (Kunth) Benth.
  • Cassia bicapsularis var. pubescens Benth.
  • Cassia bicapsularis var. tenuifolia Benth.
  • Cassia botteriana Benth.
  • Cassia coluteoides Collad.
  • Cassia crassisepala Benth.
  • Cassia dormiens Vell.
  • Cassia edulis Sessé & Moc.
  • Cassia floribunda var. scandens (Benth.) Lassen
  • Cassia indecora Kunth
  • Cassia indecora var. advena Willd. ex Vogel
  • Cassia indecora var. glabrata Vogel
  • Cassia indecora var. pendula (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Vogel
  • Cassia laevigata var. scandens Benth.
  • Cassia manzanilloana Rose
  • Cassia medellinensis Posada-Ar.

and 10 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.