Categories | Nitrogen FixerShrub |
Common Name(s) | Golden Cassia |
Family | Fabaceae, Subfamily Caesalpinioidea |
"Shrub, erect and straggling, to 3 m tall, glabrous but with the leaves and ovary sometimes sparsely hairy. Leaves 5-9 cm long..." (Flora of Australia)
Senna coronilloides has proved difficult to obtain in quantities from bushland harvesting to date. Otherwise it has the attributes of a useful shrub for rehabilitation. In the South Burnett region we observe C. coronilloides in small groups under or in proximity to Eucalyptus moluccana, Casuarina cristata and Acacia harpophylla.
Distributed north from Bulga, NSW, subcoastal and inland, almost to Cairns, Qld. Reaches the coast near Rockhampton and inland as far as Narrabri, St George, Canarvon and Gilberton.
Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. [Date Accessed: Nov 29, 2019] http://www.ausflora.org.au
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senna~coronilloides
Stanley,T.D, and Ross, E.M. (1995). Flora of South Eastern Queensland, Volume 1.
Botanical Illustrations by Sylvia Seiler. Compiled by Ross and Wilma Tait for the Chinchilla Field Naturalists’ Club, 2014