{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | genus = Senra | parent_authority = Cav.<ref name=GRIN>{{GRIN genus | name = ''Senra'' | id = 11067 | accessdate = 16 April 2017}}</ref> | species = incana | authority = Cav. (1786)<ref name=Tropicos>{{Tropicos | 50213195 | accessdate = 16 April 2017}}</ref> |synonyms={{collapsible list|bullets=true |title=Synonymy |''Dumreichera'' {{small|Hochst. & Steud.}} |''Serraea'' {{small|Spreng.}} |''Dumreichera arabica'' {{small|Hochst. & Steud.}} |''Gossypium bakeri'' {{small|G.Watt}} |''Senra arabica'' {{small|Webb}} |''Senra bakeri'' {{small|(G.Watt) Prokh.}} |''Senra incana subsp. migiurtinorum'' {{small|Chiov.}} |''Senra incana var. scassellatii'' {{small|(Mattei) Senni}} |''Senra nubica'' {{small|Webb}} |''Senra nubica var. microphylla'' {{small|Mattei}} |''Senra nubica var. scassellatii'' {{small|Mattei}} |''Senra zoes'' {{small|Volkens & Schweinf.}} |''Serraea arabica'' {{small|(Hochst. & Steud.) Mattei}} |''Serraea incana'' {{small|(Cav.) Spreng.}} |''Serraea nubica'' {{small|(Webb) Mattei}} |''Serraea rupestris'' {{small|Edgew.}} |''Serraea zoeae'' {{small|(Volkens & Schweinf.) Mattei}} }} |synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |title=''Senra'' Cav. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26059-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=15 November 2025}}</ref><ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Senra incana'' Cav. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:563353-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=15 November 2025}}</ref> }}
'''''Senra''''' is a genus of flowering plants in tribe Hibisceae of the family Malvaceae. It includes single species, '''''Senra incana''''', an annual or perennial native to northeastern tropical Africa (Kenya to Sudan), the Arabian Peninsula, and India and Pakistan, where it grows in deserts and dry shrublands.<ref name = powo/>
The plant produces the phenolic compounds coniferaldehyde, scopoletin, sinapaldehyde and syringaldehyde.<ref>Pharmacologically active phenylpropanoids from ''Senra incana''. Farah MH, Samuelsson G. ''Planta Medica''. 1992 Feb;58(1):14-8.{{doi|10.1055/s-2006-961380}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== <!-- {{Commonscat-inline}} {{Wikispecies-inline}} --> * [http://plants.jstor.org/flora/flos000234 ''Senra incana'' on JStor]
{{Taxonbar|from=Q7450923|from2=Q7450924}}
Category:Hibisceae Category:Monotypic Malvaceae genera Category:Flora of Djibouti Category:Flora of Eritrea Category:Flora of Ethiopia Category:Flora of India (region) Category:Flora of Kenya Category:Flora of Oman Category:Flora of Pakistan Category:Flora of Saudi Arabia Category:Flora of Socotra Category:Flora of Somalia Category:Flora of Sudan Category:Flora of Yemen Category:Plants described in 1786 Category:Taxa named by Antonio José Cavanilles
{{Hibisceae-stub}}