Citation: R. Br. in Sturt, Exped. Centr. Aust., Bot. App. 78 (1849).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Woody (or silver) cassia.

Description:
Hoary spreading shrub, densely pubescent with short silvery hairs when young; leaves reduced to phyllodes, narrow-oblanceolate, often falcate, rarely with leaflets; gland not prominent and occurring one-quarter to three-quarters along the upper edge of the phyllode.

Flowers 2-5 in short racemes or subumbellate clusters; stamens all fertile, 1 or 2 on longer filaments.

Pod 5-7 x 1-1.2 cm, flat, usually curved in a semicircle; seeds obovate, dull, dark-brown.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 381.

Distribution:    N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in early summer.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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