Silver Cassia
Leaf
Silver Cassia
Green Pod
| Silver Cassia Leaf | | Silver Cassia Green Pod | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | |||
| Order: | Legumes (Fabales) | ||||
| Family: | Legume (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Silver Cassia (Senna artemisioides ssp artemisioides) | ||||
| This Photo: | Old Flowers | ||||
| Other name: | Punty Bush | ||||
Thank you Jean-Philippe Basuyaux for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere Very similar to the Senna artemisioides ssp filifolia, but the leaves are not cylindrical; even though they look it from one side. They are heavily curved, like a new moon in cross section. The photo's tell the story easier than it is to describe them. The leaves are also shorter, which reduces the spiky appearance. Oops, forgot to mention; they also regularly have 4 leaflets (or more), not the 2 of filifolia. They are very common on Ellura, with an estimated 30% of Senna artemisioides bushes being this sub-species. | |||||
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