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Pepper Leaf Senna

Senna barclayana

Also called Smooth Senna, Yellow Peabush, Pepperleaf Senna

Pepper Leaf Senna
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Senna barclayana, commonly known as smooth senna or pepper-leaf senna, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a herbaceous perennial or subshrub with pinnate leaves with six to ten pairs of lance-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaflets, and yellow flowers in groups of six to ten.

Where it grows

Senna barclayana grows in open forest in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, but its range is increasing and it is now naturalised in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

Other Senna plants

Rainforest Cassia · Sprawling Cassia · Emperor's candlesticks · Alexandrian senna · Desertsenna · Silver senna · Flor de San Jose · Matara Tea · Senna barronfieldii · Twinleaf senna · Christmasbush · Senna cardiosperma

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senna barclayana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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