Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, N of Innaminka, SA

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, unnamed photographer, place unknown

Common Name

Sesbania Pea, Yellow Pea-bush

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 3m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, composed of 20-90 leaflets. Leaflets each 0.5-20mm long, 1-4mm wide, flat, hairy when young, becoming hairless, tips blunt or with a short point. The main stalk of the leaves sometimes minutely prickly. Flowers pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together, yellow to orange-yellow, the upright petal often streaked or spotted with purple on the back. Flowers in racemes of 1-6 flowers, arising from the bases of the leaves. Vulnerable Vic (as Sesbania cannabina var. cannabina).

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 411

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

FloraBase photos:  http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/browse/photo/4196