tinnevelly senna


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Noun1.tinnevelly senna - erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowerstinnevelly senna - erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, Cassia acutifolia, Cassia augustifolia, Indian senna, Senna alexandrina, true senna
senna - any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally
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Increasing sennoside yields in Tinnevelly senna (Cassia angustifolia).
Sennoside yields in Tinnevelly senna affected by deflowering and leaf maturity.
Gas exchange and leaf ultrastructure of tinnevelly senna, Cassia angustifolia, under drought and nitrogen stress

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