Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• Basionym: Cassia obtusifolia L.

Common names:

• American sicklepod  (Source: BSBI) - English
• coffee-weed  (Source: F Florida) - English
• Java-bean  (Source: Econ Pl Aust) - English
• sicklepod  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• sicklepod senna  (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2) - English
• dormidera  (Source: F WIndies Online) - Spanish (Caribbean)

Economic Importance:

• Medicines: folklore
• Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [West Virginia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Missouri]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Baja California Sur]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, [St. Barthelemy] Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, United States, [Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, U.S.] Virgin Islands (British)
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, [Guayas, Los Ríos, Napo] Peru [Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín, Ucayali]
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, Misiones, Salta, Tucumán] Paraguay


Naturalized

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Libya
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Namibia, South Africa

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Iraq

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Indonesia, [Papua] Papua New Guinea
• MALESIA: Indonesia, [Jawa] Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Indiana, Pennsylvania]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California (s.)]

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia

Southern America

• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador [Galápagos]


Other (exact native range obscure)

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