Senna spectabilis (DC.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19892105/20141165

Conservation

LC - least concern

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation

Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular

alcaparro, beleño, candelillo, cañafístol, cañafístola macho, cañafístolo, cañafístula, cañafístula de caballo, cañafístula macho, cañafistulillo, cañafístulo, cañafístulo macho, floramarillo, floramarillo montero, fruta de murciélago, galvis, matarratón, platico, toral, vainillo, valero, velero, velillo

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Cultivated

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub/Tree

Vernacular

Bruscon, Canafistola Macho, Canchin, Candelilla, Candelillo, Carnaval, Chiquichique, Flor De Los Muertos, Flor De Todos Los Santos, Frijolillo, Golden Shower, Kaha-Kona, Munjal-kona, Ramo, Tarantan, Vasito Sucio, Velero, Yuto

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution

Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 160 - 1800 m.; Andes, Valle del Cauca, Valle del Magdalena.

Morphology General Habit

Arbolito, árbol

Conservation

Preocupación Menor

Distribution

Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 160–1800 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Caldas, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Quindío, Risaralda, Tolima, Valle del Cauca.

Habit

Small tree, Tree.

Conservation

IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): LC. National Red List of Colombia (2021): Potential LC.

Ecology

Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, artificial - terrestrial.

Leguminosae, R.K. Brummitt, A.C. Chikuni, J.M. Lock and R.M. Polhill. Flora Zambesiaca 3:2. 2007

Morphology General Habit

Tree to 10 m or more.

Morphology Branches

Branchlets smooth, dark brown, puberulous to tomentellous, glabrescent.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves paripinnate; stipules 7–9 [4–10] mm long, linear, caducous; petiole 3.5–4 [1–3.5] cm long, pubescent, eglandular;>i> rachis 13–28 [12–36] cm long, pubescent, eglandular;>i> leaflets in 10–12 pairs, [(8)11–19(20)]>i> 5.5–8 × 1.8–2.5 [3–9.5 × 1.1–2.7] cm, the lowest pairs somewhat smaller, ovate,>i> acute, base symmetrical, cuneate, appressed-hairy beneath, sparsely appressed-puberulous above.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences large terminal panicles.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Sepals 5, dimorphic, the outer two 5–6 × 4 mm, broadly ovate-elliptic, the inner three larger, 8–9 mm in diameter, suborbicular, almost glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals dimorphic, golden-yellow, dark-veined when dry; four 17–19 × 14–16 mm, broadly obovate; one obovate, turned at right angles above the claw, larger than the rest.>i> Stamens 10; seven fertile with anthers c.5 mm long, and three apparently sterile with reduced flattened bilobed anthers.>i> Ovary 12–15 mm long, glabrous; style glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pod black, 16–30 × 0.9–1.2 cm, terete or subquadrate, straight, glabrous, pendulous, very tardily dehiscent along one suture, many-seeded.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds brown, 5–7 × 3.5–5 mm, broadly obovate in outline, with elliptic areoles on each broad face.

Note

(Measurements and figures in square brackets are those for South America, from Irwin & Barneby 1982)

Use Environmental

Environmental uses.

Use Food

Used for food.

Use Materials

Used as material.

Use Medicines

Medical uses.

Use Poisons

Poisons.