Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_senna_didymobotrya
African Senna Tree
Senna didymobotrya
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About African Senna Tree
A spreading shrub with pinnate leaves usually bearing nine to sixteen pairs of small elliptic-oblong leaflets. Upright racemes have bright-yellow flowers and brownish-green to nearly black petaloid bracts. Spreading or ascending strongly flattened pods contain pale-tan seeds overlaid brownish green. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Senna didymobotrya
- Common names
- African senna tree
- Other names
- Senna didymobotrya · African senna tree
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Keep the dark bracts and flat pods, without the four wings of Candle Bush. Petiolar nectaries are absent.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Spreading, foetid shrubs 1-5 m tall.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A spreading shrub with pinnate leaves usually bearing nine to sixteen pairs of small elliptic-oblong leaflets. Upright racemes have bright-yellow flowers and brownish-green to nearly black petaloid bracts. Spreading or ascending strongly flattened pods contain pale-tan seeds overlaid brownish green. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.