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Senna artemisioides

(Gaudich. ex DC.) Randell Silver Cassia

J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 12: 220 (1989)

APNI

Taxonomic status Accepted

Occurrence status Present

Establishment means Native

Degree of establishment Native

Shrub 1–3 m high. Leaves variable; gland 1, between lowest pair of leaflets, sessile and flat; leaflets in 1–8 pairs, variable, equal or increasing in size from base of leaf; stipules minute, triangular, early caducous. Peduncles to c. 15 mm long; pedicels to c. 10 mm long; sepals 6–8 mm long, greenish; petals (4–)7–10 mm long; fertile stamens 10, anthers 4–5 mm long, 7 adaxial anthers on filaments c. 1 mm long, 3 abaxial anthers on filaments c. 2 mm long. Pod linear, 5–10 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, compressed, straight, glabrous; seeds several, c. 4 mm long, brown, dull.

LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGU, HSF.

15 subspecies recognized currently. The main features used by Randell (1989) to distinguish the 5 Victorian subspecies (petiole length, width and cross-sectional shape and leaflet number, length, width, cross-sectional shape and indumentum) are extremely variable and plants of intermediate morphology commonly occur.

See note under the profile for Senna regarding the complex breeding systems that, at least partially, explain the often confounding array of variation observed in the field.

Source:

Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Caesalpiniaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., ‍Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae‍, pp. 658–663. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Val Stajsic, 6 Dec. 2019

Key to the subspecies of Senna artemisioides