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Twin-flowered cassia

Senna pallida

IUCN: Least Concern
Twin-flowered cassia (Senna pallida) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Gandhi Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Senna pallida
Family
Fabaceae, order Fabales
Group
Plant
Conservation status
Least Concern

Yellow flowers that host butterfly nurseries.

  • Spot it Feathery paired leaves and yellow flowers.
  • Home Gardens.
  • Food web Emigrant butterfly caterpillars eat its leaves; bees sip nectar.
  • Why it matters Hosts emigrant butterfly caterpillars, feeds bees, and its roots add nitrogen to soil.
Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2019, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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