| Senna pendula (Willd.) Irwin & Barneby var. glabrata (Vogel) Irwin & Barneby |
| FABACEAE |
| easter cassia |
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Invasive, Potential problem species |
| Origin: Brazil |
| Growth Form: Tree/shrub |
| Plant Description: Plant: Glabrous or softly pubescent, scandent shrub or small tree 2–4 m high, with ± rounded, densely leafy crown and arching branches.
Leaves: Green, margins yellow, leaflets in 4–5 pairs, obovate or elliptic, 13–40 mm long, tips rounded; petiolar gland absent; rhachis with a gland between the lowest pair of leaflets only.
Flowers: Bright yellow, in axillary racemes 40–100 mm long, numerous towards ends of branches; pedicels of open flowers 20–30 mm long; April–May (–all year).
Fruit: Pods, brown, ± straight to slightly curved, pendulous, cylindrical, ± inflated, rounded apically, septate within, 180–200 mm long, not or slowly dehiscent. |
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More information:
Weeds & Invasive Plants Home Page
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Photo - flowers/pod/leaves
Rob Mackenzie, Swaziland's Alien Plants Database
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| KEY |
 Confirmed (herbarium specimen) |
 Visual record |
 Suspected |
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