Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Denise Grieg, Alice Springs, NT

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: G Flowers, east of Yalgoo, WA

Common Name

None

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub 1-2m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, with 2-8 pairs of leaflets each 1.5-2.5cm long, 2-8mm wide, flat, sparsely to densely hairy, concave or with margins rolled inwards.  Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, in clusters of 4-8 flowers, the stalks arisng from the bases of the leaves.  Family was Caesalpiniaceae. 

Description and photo of flowers and leaves (as Cassia sturtii) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 382

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