Senna rigida

Title

Senna rigida

Authors

Howard S. Irwin, Rupert C. Barneby

Scientific Name

Senna rigida (Hieron.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

Description

186.  Senna rigida (Hieronymus) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia aphylla var. rigida Hieronymus, Bol. Acad. Nac. Ci. Cord. 4(1): 24. 1881. C. rigida (Hieronymus) Burkart, Leg. Argent, ed. 2, 544. 1952.

Cassia aphylla var. rigida sensu Burkart, 1946, p. 239. C. rigida sensu Bravo, 1978, p. 369, fig. 8.

Bravo (1978, p. 373, fig. 9) recognized in addition to the typical one a var. inermis, different in its more pliant branchlets and slightly shorter pedicels.