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:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.: rare in S.Aust. and N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in late winter to early Summer, June — Oct.

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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