Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Idalia National Park, Qld

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Roger Grund, Purnong, SA

Pods and leaves. Photo: Phillip Ruttenburr, Arizona, USA

Shrub. Photo: Roger Grund, Purnong, SA

Common Name

None

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 3m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, composed of 1-6 pairs leaflets, each 0.7-2cm long, 2-6mm wide, linear to flat, the edges turned down, sparsely hairy, with blunt tips.  Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, in clusters of 6-10 flowers, the stalks arisng from the bases of the leaves.  Family was Caealpiniaceae.

Description and photo (as Cassia eremophila var. coriacea) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 379

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Senna~artemisioides+subsp.~x+coriacea