Senna pleurocarpa
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| Senna pleurocarpa | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Genus: | Senna |
| Species: | S. pleurocarpa |
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| Senna pleurocarpa | |
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Senna pleurocarpa, commonly known as fire bush[2] or chocolate bush,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a spreading shrub with pinnate leaves with five to seven pairs of broadly elliptic to egg-shaped leaflets, and groups of five to twelve yellow flowers arranged in dense groups of twenty to sixty on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils.
Senna planitiicola is a spreading, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1.5 m (7.9 in – 4 ft 11.1 in). Its leaves are pinnate, 80–120 mm (3.1–4.7 in) long including a petiole 20–40 mm (0.79–1.57 in) long, with five to twelve pairs of linear to elliptic leaflets, 30–60 mm (1.2–2.4 in) long and 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) wide, spaced 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) apart. There are no glands on the leaves. The flowers are yellow and arranged in groups of twenty to sixty on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils on a peduncle 20–80 mm (0.79–3.15 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long. The petals are about 15 mm (0.59 in) long and there are seven fertile stamens, the longest anthers about 10 mm (0.39 in) long and the others 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long, as well as three staminodes. Flowering occurs in from July to December, and the fruit is a straight pod 35–70 mm (1.4–2.8 in) long and 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) wide.[2][4][5][6]