Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Senna barronfieldii

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Boyne State Forest north of Batemans Bay

Pods and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Fragrant senna

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest and rainforest margins. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to about 3 m tall or sprawling. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 8-15 cm long, compound, with 6-26 leaflets spaced 5-8 mm apart, each 1-3 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, tips pointed or blunt and mucronate, margins flat or slightly curved down, upper surface hairless, lower surface sometimes sparsely hairy; glands between all leaflet pairs, stalk often slightly winged.. Flowers fragrant, with 5 yellow petals each 12-20 mm long. Flowers with 10 stamens that produce pollen. Flowers single or in clusters of 3-5 flowers. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Was Senna odorata.

Family was Caesalpiniaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senna~barronfieldii (accessed 7 February, 2021)