Senna tora

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna tora (L.) Roxb.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cassia tora L. (nomenclatural synonym)
Cassia tora L. var. tora (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (20), Cooper_2013 (13), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 78 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 150 mm (120-180 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 38.75 mm (15-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 19.5 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (1); subshrub (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (2); perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); woody_base (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyynnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.07 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	12	20	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
eFLOWER_Dun_2022	17	19	L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NTH_2023	9	11	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	4	4	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.