Common Name

Woody Cassia, Silver Cassia

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub 50cm-2m tall. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 1.5-6cm long, 2-8mm wide, flat, hairy, with smooth edges, sometimes with one pair of leaflets. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals, in clusters of 3-5 flowers, the stalks arisng from the bases of the leaves. Family was Caesalpiniaceae.

Differs from Senna artemisioides ssp. x petiolaris in that the 'leaves' are curved and very hairy.

Description and photo (as Cassia phyllodinea) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 381

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senna~phyllodinea