Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Senna aciphylla
Common name
Sprawling cassia
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, shrubland, rocky slopes, and along streams. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub, sprawling or to 2 m tall, hairless to hairy. Leaf tips often sharp. Stems angular and striate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-5 cm long, compound, with 8-24 leaflets spaced 1-5 mm apart, each 1.5-4.5 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, hairless to hairy, margins usually obviously rolled down, tips pointed and often mucronate and sharp, glands between all leaflet pairs. Flowers with 5 yellow to golden petals 10-15 mm long. Flowers with 10 stamens that produce pollen. Flowers in clusters of 2-3 flowers. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
Family was Caesalpiniaceae.
Regarded as Indigenous/Naturalised in the ACT.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senna~aciphylla (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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