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Senna cardiosperma

Senna cardiosperma
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Western Australia to South Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Senna cardiosperma is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the western half of Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves, the number and shape of the leaflets depending on subspecies, yellow flowers with ten fertile stamens in each flower, and flat pods.

Where it grows

Subspecies cardiosperma grows on rocky hillsides in arid places in the Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison and Nullarbor bioregions of Western Australia. Subspecies gawlerensis grows in rocky places and in sand on the Eyre Peninsula and in the northwest corner of South Australia, and subsp. microphylla grows in arid shrubland in the far north-western corner of South Australia and in the south of the Northern Territory.

Other Senna plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senna cardiosperma 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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