Botanical family · Fabales
Caesalpiniaceae
Senna family
93 species in this family
Often treated as a subfamily of Fabaceae, these are primarily tropical trees and shrubs with distinctively irregular but less markedly butterfly-shaped flowers than true legumes. Includes ornamental trees like Cassia, Bauhinia, and Delonix (Gulmohar).
- Slightly irregular flowers (not typical papilionoid)
- Usually pinnate or bipinnate leaves
- Pod fruit; often large canopy trees
Species in CAESALPINIACEAE
- Indian Ash, Red or Pink Cedar, Single TreeAcrocarpus fraxinifolius
- Pride of Burma, Orchid Tree, Noble Amherstia, Tree of heavenAmherstia nobilis
- White 'Orchid' Tree, Dwarf White Bauhinia, Butterfly-tree, Hawaiian Orchid Tree, Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Purple Camel's Foot, White Bauhinia, Kaa-long, Snowy OrchidBauhinia acuminata
- BauhiniaBauhinia blakeana
- Brazilian Orchid TreeBauhinia forficata
- Pride of the CapeBauhinia galpinii
- White BauhiniaBauhinia hookeri
- Malabar Mountain Ebony, Malabar bauhinia, Mountain ebonyBauhinia malabarica
- Pink BauhiniaBauhinia monandra
- Crimson Mountain EbonyBauhinia phoenicea
- Purple Orchid Tree, Purple Bauhinia, Butterfly tree, Camel's foot tree, Geranium tree, Orchid treeBauhinia purpurea
- Indian KanchanBauhinia racemosa
- Burmese Silk Orchid Tree, Yellow Orchid Bauhinia, St. Thomas Tree, Yellow Bell BauhiniaBauhinia tomentosa
- Maloo CreeperBauhinia vahlii
- Mountain Ebony, The Variegated Bauhinia, Orchid tree, Purple orchid treeBauhinia variegata
- White BauhiniaBauhinia variegata var. candida
- Scarlet Flame BeanBrownea coccinea
- Rose of the JungleBrownea grandiceps
- Flame TreeBrownea macrophylla
- Bonduc-nut, Fever-nut, Physic-nutCaesalpinia bonduc
- Divi divi, American SumachCaesalpinia coriaria
- Wood Gossip CaesalpiniaCaesalpinia crista
- Brasiletto climberCaesalpinia cucullata
- Mysore thorn, Black bonduc, ShooflyCaesalpinia decapetala
- teripodCaesalpinia digyna
- Brazilian IronwoodCaesalpinia ferrea
- Mimosa ThornCaesalpinia mimosoides
- Dwarf poinciana, Peacock flower, Barbados pride, Peacock Cassia, Peacock flower, Barbados flower-fence, Gold MohurCaesalpinia pulcherrima
- Indian Laburnum, Golden Shower, Purging fistula, Fistula, Purging cassiaCassia fistula
- Pink Shower, Coral Shower, Horse CassiaCassia grandis
- Java Cassia, Pink CassiaCassia javanica
- Bronze Shower TreeCassia moschata
- Java CassiaCassia nodosa
- Red Cassia, Red Indian LaburnumCassia roxburghii
- Hairy CassiaChamaecrista absus
- Feather-leaved Cassia, Mimosa-like SennaChamaecrista mimosoides
- Dwarf SennaChamaecrista pumila
- Round-leaf CassiaChamaecrista rotundifolia
- Colville'S Glory TreeColvillea racemosa
- Wrinkle Pod MangroveCynometra iripa
- White Gulmohar, Yellow Gul Mohr, Creamy Peacock FlowerDelonix elata
- Red Gulmohar, Gulmohar, Flamboyant Flame Tree, Royal poinciana, Gul Mohur, Flamboyant tree, Flame tree, Peacock FlowerDelonix regia
- NickernutGuilandina bonduc
- AnjanHardwickia binata
- Three-Petal HumboldtiaHumboldtia brunonis
- Malabar HumboldtiaHumboldtia vahliana
- StinkingtoeHymenaea courbaril
- Moluccan Iron Wood, Borneo teakIntsia bijuga
- Orange brasiletto climber, Candy Corn PlantMoullava spicata
- Mexican Palo VerdeParkinsonia aculeata
- Horse Bean, Jerusalem thornPeltophorum africanum
- The Copper Pod, Copper pod tree, Golden Flamboyante, Rusty shield bearer, Rusty shield bearer, Yellow gold mohur, Yellow Flame Tree, Yellow PoincianaPeltophorum pterocarpum
- Runner BeanPhaseolus coccineus
- White brasiletto climber, Camp SiegePterolobium hexapetalum
- Asoka tree, True Asoka, Sita Asoka, Sesbania Pea, Canicha, Prickly SesbanSaraca asoca
- ashokSaraca indica
- Yellow SaracaSaraca thaipingensis
- Tree FuchsiaSchotia brachypetala
- Candle Cassia, Candle Bush, Carrion Crow Bush, Candlesticks, Empress candle plant, Ringworm Cassia, Winged SennaSenna alata
- Tinnavale Senna, Indian Senna, Alexandrian Senna, Bombay Senna, Indian Senna, Tinnervelly SennaSenna alexandrina
- Tanner's Cassia, Eared Senna, Tanner's senna, Styptic weedSenna auriculata
- Argentine SennaSenna corymbosa
- Hairy Sickle Pod, American Hairy SennaSenna hirsuta
- Italian SennaSenna italica
- Deccan SennaSenna montana
- Buttercup BushSenna multiglandulosa
- False SicklepodSenna multijuga
- Coffee Weed, Negro Coffee, Stinking weed, Coffee Senna, Foetid senna, SepticweedSenna occidentalis
- desert sennaSenna polyphylla
- Siamese Tree Senna, Ironwood tree, Siamese sennaSenna siamea
- Foetid Senna, Senna sophera, Pepper leaved SennaSenna sophera
- Popcorn Bush Cedar, Archibald's Cassia, Calceolaria Cassia, Golden Shower, Scented Shower, Fetid CassiaSenna spectabilis
- Sulphur flowered Senna, Glaucous Cassia, Kolomona, Scrambled Egg BushSenna surattensis
- Foetid Cassia, Sickle pod, Ring worm plant, Sickle Senna, Wild SennaSenna tora
- One-leaf SennaSenna uniflora
- Tamarind Tree, Indian date, SampalokTamarindus indica
- Pride of BoliviaTipuana tipu
- Bauhinia foveolata
- Bauhinia ramosissima
- Bauhinia retusa
- Bauhinia scandens var. anguina
- Cassia indochinensis
- Cassia renigera
- Chamaecrista auricoma
- Chamaecrista leschenaultiana
- Cynometra beddomei
- Cynometra travancorica
- Humboldtia bourdillonii
- Humboldtia decurrens
- Humboldtia sanjappae
- Humboldtia unijuga var. unijuga
- Kingiodendron pinnatum
- Senna holosericea
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