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පැණි තෝර

පැණි තෝර பொன்னாவாரை

Senna occidentalis

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Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0

Overview

Senna occidentalis, commonly known as coffee senna, styptic weed, or septicweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to the southern United States of America, Mexico and South America. It is a shrub with pinnate leaves, with three to seven pairs of broadly elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in groups of two to four, with six fertile stamens in each flower. It is an aggressive, pantropical weed.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Senna occidentalis — CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (TA): பொன்னாவாரை — CC BY-SA 4.0
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