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Senna stricta is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to western Australia. It is an erect shrub with pinnate leaves, usually with two to five pairs of linear leaflets, and yellow flowers arranged in umbels of two to five, with ten fertile stamens in each flower, and a flat pod.
Senna stricta grows in red sandy or stony soils, mainly in the Avon Wheatbelt, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison and Pilbara bioregions of Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senna stricta 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.
