Names, Taxonomy & Identifier
Apart from "sicklepod" and Chinese senna", S. obtusifolia has a wide range of common names. It is also known in English as Foetid Sassia (or "cassia"), Sickle Senna, Coffeeweed or Arsenic Weed, and somewhat ambiguously as "blunt-leaved senna", "coffee pod" or "java bean". The scientific name means "blunt-leaved senna", with obtusifolia coming from Latin obtus ("dull", "blunt") + folium ("leaf").
Names in its native range are also:
- Chinese: pinyin: jué míng zi (simplified Chinese: 决明子; traditional Chinese: 決明子)
- Japanese: ebisu-gusa ("Ebisu tree": エビスグサ; 胡草; 恵比須草)
- Korean: gyeolmyeongja (hangul: 결명자; hanja: 決明子)
- Portuguese: fedegoso (also used for Senna macranthera and others)
- Hindi: chirauta chokad
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