Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Senna pendula var. glabrata
Cassia, Senna, Winter senna, Easter senna, Easter cassia
Fabaceae
Forest, bushland, roadsides, gardens, and along streams. Coastal. Sydney area away from the coast.
Introduced shrub to 5 m tall, or sprawling. Stems and leaves sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4-12 cm long, compound, with 6-12 leaflets spaced 10-20 mm apart, each 1-5 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, tips blunt or rarely notched, 1 gland between the lowest leaflet pair. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 12-15 mm long. Flowers with 6 or 7 stamens that produce pollen. Flowers in 12-20 flowered clusters. Flowers throughout the year.
Family was Caesalpiniaceae.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Senna~pendula~var.+glabrata (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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