Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Senna pendula var. glabrata

Flowers, pods, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer B Gray, Carrington Road, Qld

Pods and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Bulli

Common name

Cassia, Senna, Winter senna, Easter senna, Easter cassia

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

Forest, bushland, roadsides, gardens, and along streams. Coastal. Sydney area away from the coast.

Notes

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)