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Senna gaudichaudii
Also called Climbing Cassia, Gaudichaud’s Senna, Blunt Leaved Senna
Senna gaudichaudii, also known by many common names, including kolomana in Hawaii and as blunt-leaved senna in Australia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to some Pacific Islands including Hawaii, parts of Southeast Asia and Queensland in Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves, usually with three to five pairs of oblong to egg-shaped leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in groups of four to ten, with ten fertile stamens in each flower.
Senna gaudichaudii occurs in Fiji, Hawaii, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Maluku Islands, New Caledonia, Pitcairn Island, Queensland, the Society Islands, Tubuai and Vanuatu. In Hawaii, this species inhabits dry, sheltered locations on rocky slopes, and disturbed sites. It is found on all Hawaiian islands apart from Niihau and Kahoʻolawe, and from almost sea level to 3,000 ft (910 m). In Australia, the species grows in forest and drier places in rainforest in coastal and subcoastal eastern Queensland and Cape York Peninsula.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senna gaudichaudii 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.
