Cassia tora vs suffrutex

Cassia tora and suffrutex both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Cassia tora	Yes	No	No	No
suffrutex	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, suffrutex is a hypernym of Cassia tora; that is, suffrutex is a word with a broader meaning than Cassia tora:

Cassia tora: cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
suffrutex: low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

Other hypernyms of Cassia tora include subshrub.

Cassia tora (noun)	suffrutex (noun)
cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia	low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base