Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Senna artemisioides subsp. zygophylla

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Denise Grieg, Olive Pink Garden, Alice Springs, NT

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Flowering shrub. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Common name

A Senna

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland, shrubland, and rocky areas. Western Slopes

Notes

Shrub, rarely a small tree, to 3 m tall. Branchlets hairless or sparsely hairy, sometimes glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with mostly 2-4 leaflets, each 1.8-4 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, flattish in cross section, sometimes appearing narrow cylindrical because the margins are tightly rolled upwards, margins curved to rolled upwards, tips pointed or blunt, surfaces hairless to sparsely hairy, 1 or 2 glands between one or both leaflet pairs. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 6-10 mm long. Flowers with 10 stamens that produce pollen. Flowers in clusters of 3-5 flowers. Flowers winter and spring.

Family was Caesalpiniaceae.

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