[3][4] It is a semi-evergreen shrub growing to 3.5 m tall with a low spreading crown that reproduces by seed.

The sap from emaciated leaves can be used externally, with salt, to heal rashes, sores, bites, stings, eczema, scabies, ringworm and thrush.

In the 20th century, Maximino Martínez points out the following uses: cathartic and to counteract the effects of arthropod stings.

It is naturalised and invasive in several coastal areas in the tropics, including Tanzania, Kenya, the Galápagos Islands and New Caledonia, where it is found in roadsides and disturbed areas, wooded grasslands, fallow land and riparian zones.

The presence in the plant of cassin , 2,6-dialkyl-3-hydroxypyridine and socassidine has also been reported Senna bicapsularis has been described under a wide variety of names that are today considered its synonyms.