Common name: Fire bush
Senna pleurocarpa (F.Muell.) Randell APNI* Synonyms: Cassia pleurocarpa F.Muell. APNI*
Description: Spreading shrub to 1–3 m high.
Leaves 7–15 cm long, glands absent; leaflets 5–7 pairs, linear or oblong, largest 20–50 mm long, 6–12 mm wide, glabrous; petiole 20–40 mm long.
Racemes 7–25 cm long, erect, spike-like, many-flowered, with pale caducous bracts. Fertile stamens 7; 2 largest anthers 9 mm long on filaments 1–2 mm long; 2 of 3 lower anthers with longer C-curved filaments ± parallel to the axis of floral symmetry.
Pods flat, oblong, 3.5–7 cm long, 8–12 mm wide, glabrous.
Flowering: Flowers all year.
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs in inland sandy areas; north from Milparinka, Tibooburra area.
NSW subdivisions: NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld N.T. S.A. W.A.
This species has been suspected of being poisonous to stock.
Text by B. Wiecek
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: var. pleurocarpa |
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