Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Senna acclinis

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

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

Leaves and pods. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT.

Common name

Rainforest Cassia, Rainforest Senna, Brush Senna

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Forest margins, and along streams. Coastal north from Wollongong.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless, more or less glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems, 10-15 cm long, compound, with 10-14 leaflets, each 2.5-5 cm long, 10-15 mm wide, spaced about 15 mm apart, hairless or slightly hairy, tips blunt, 1 or 2 glands between the lowest leaflet pairs. Leaf stalks 20–40 mm long. Flowers golden yellow, with 5 petals, each 12-15 mm long. Flowers with 10 stamens that produce pollen. Flowers in 2-5 flowered clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Family was Caesalpiniaceae.

Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10753 (accessed 8 January 2021)

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senna~acclinis (accessed 8 January 2021)