Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_senna_surattensis
Glaucous Senna
Senna surattensis
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About Glaucous Senna
Glaucous Senna (Senna surattensis) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native from tropical and subtropical Asia through parts of Malesia and the Pacific and associated with open woodland, savanna, and disturbed vegetation. Repeated pod production supports persistence. Bishop Museum and Smithsonian document naturalized Kauaʻi occurrence; current abundance and effects are unmeasured.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Senna surattensis
- Common names
- Glaucous Senna
- Other names
- Senna surattensis · Glaucous senna · Cassia surattensis
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Present island-wide abundance, occupied habitat, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects have not been quantified; no invasive severity is inferred from checklist, Polynesian-introduction, forestry, or planting status.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Yellow flowers require pollination and mature into dry many-seeded pods. Seeds fall locally or move with water, animals, and disturbed soil; local pollinators, dormancy, and recruitment are unknown.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or small tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Glaucous Senna (Senna surattensis) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native from tropical and subtropical Asia through parts of Malesia and the Pacific and associated with open woodland, savanna, and disturbed vegetation. Repeated pod production supports persistence. Bishop Museum and Smithsonian document naturalized Kauaʻi occurrence; current abundance and effects are unmeasured.
Sources and further reading
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:911423-1
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:911423-1/general-information
- https://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/pdf/tr75.pdf
- https://editedimages.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Imadaetal.2025Hawaiianvascularplants.xlsx
- https://doi.org/10.5479/si.32124043