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Senna phyllodinea

Senna phyllodinea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
C. & E. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Senna phyllodinea is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, and is endemic to arid areas of inland Australia. It is a spreading, bushy shrub with its leaves reduced to curved phyllodes, and yellow flowers arranged in racemes with ten fertile stamens in each flower.

Where it grows

Senna phyllodinea grows in a variety of soils in arid areas of western New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and 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 phyllodinea 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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