Family: Fabaceae
Cassia pruinosa
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:48 (1862).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: White cassia.
Description:
Shrub, often straggly, glabrous, young growth and twigs pruinose; leaflets 3-7 pairs, oblong-elliptic, usually with an inconspicuous gland between the lowest pair of leaflets; stipules more or less persistent, somewhat leafy.
Flowers 4-6 in short racemes or subumbellate, relatively large; stamens all fertile, 1 or 2 lower ones on longer filaments.
Pod 3-6 x c. 1 cm, Oat; seeds obovate, thick, flattish, a dark greenish brown.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 382.
Distribution:
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W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.: rare in S.Aust. and N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: in late 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
Author:
Not yet available
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