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Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.   Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby. Fabaceae. CN: [Malay: Gelenggang kecil], American sicklepod, Coffee-weed, Java-bean, Sicklepod, Sicklepod senna, Foetid cassia, Wild Senna. Native of the neotropics; elsewhere widely naturalized pantropically. Widely used in native medicine for many ailments. Stem herbaceous to woody up to 150 cm; leaves alternate, pinnate and leaflets often ending in three pairs, 2.5 - 5 cm long and 1 - 2.5 cm wide; leaf-stalk with tiny glands and grooved on the upper side. Flowers in pairs from leaf-axils, bright yellow; calyx with a short tube; petals 5, stamens 10, the upper shorter ones not fully developed, the lower ones with thick stalks; style long curved. Pod sickle-shaped. Seed rectangular with the hilum at one end.  Synonym(s): Cassia contorta Vogel  Cassia humilis Collad. Cassia humilis M. Martens & Galeotti  Cassia obtusifolia L.  Cassia sunsub Forssk. Cassia tala Desv.  Cassia tora sensu auct. [Misapplied] Cassia tora var. b Wight & Arn.  Cassia tora var. humilis (Collad.) Collad. Cassia tora var. humilis Pers.  Cassia tora var. obtusifolia (L.) Haines  Cassia toroides Roxb.  Cassia toroides Raf.  Chamaefistula contorta G. Don  Diallobus falcatus Raf.  Diallobus tora (L.) Raf.  Diallobus tora (L.) Jackson  Diallobus uniflorus Raf.  Emelista tora (L.) Britton & Rose ex Britton & P. Wilson  Senna toroides Roxb.  Ref. and suggested reading: www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-1083 www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?100044 pkukmweb.ukm.my/~rsenr3/rsenr1/P472-476.pdf explorepharma.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/cassia-toracoffee-...  Cassia tora: a neglected weed with immense nutritional and medicinal values. www.ecosensorium.org/2010/08/cassia-tora-neglected-weed-w...