Family: Fabaceae
Cassia oligophylla
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:49 (1862).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Limestone cassia.
Description:
Shrub, rounded or flat-topped, often widespreading, sombre-green or glaucous, variously sparsely pubescent; leaflets 1-3 pairs, lower pair smaller, elliptic to obovate, obtuse, generally firm and coriaceous, mid-nerve prominent below.
Flowers 6-20 in long or short or subumbellate racemes; stamens all fertile, 1 or 2 lower ones longer; pod to 7 x 1.5-2.5 cm, flat, oblong or slightly curved, sometimes sparsely pubescent.
Seeds thick, flattish, obovate, dark, dull.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 381.
Distribution:
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W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: in winter to early summer, June — Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
C. oligophylla forms a difficult taxonomic complex with C helmsii and C nemophila var. coriacea and many intermediate forms may be found.
Author:
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