Senna covesii |
Senna multiglandulosa |
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Coues' cassia, Coves' cassia, desert senna |
buttercup bush, glandular cassia, glandular senna |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, to 0.7 m. Leaves slightly sclerophyllous, 2–10 cm, hairy; stipules persistent, to 1 mm wide; extrafloral nectaries between all leaflet pairs, stipitate; leaflet pairs 2–4, blades obovate to elliptic-obovate or oblong-elliptic, 10–38 × 5–19 mm. | Shrubs or trees, to 5(–6) m. Leaves mesophyllous, 6–17.5 cm, finely and densely hairy; stipules caducous; extrafloral nectaries 1, between many or all leaflet pairs, sessile; leaflet pairs 5–9, blades oblong-elliptic or lanceolate- to oblanceolate-elliptic, 23–47 × 6–17 mm. |
Racemes | (2–)4–8-flowered; bracts caducous. |
usually 3–15-flowered; bracts caducous. |
Pedicels | 8–17 mm. |
12–26 mm. |
Flowers | monosymmetric; calyx pale green, pinkish, or yellowish; corolla golden yellow, longest petal 9–15 mm; androecium not heterantherous, stamens 7, staminodes 3; anthers 2.5–4.2 mm, dehiscing by 1 apical pore, apical appendage 0; gynoecium linear, slightly incurved, ovules 28–42; ovary hairy; style filiform, incurved. |
monosymmetric; calyx yellow; corolla deep yellow, longest petal 12–19 mm; androecium heterantherous, stamens 7, middle stamens 1/2 as long as abaxial or smaller, staminodes 3; anthers of middle stamens 3.7–5 mm, of abaxial stamens 6–7.5 mm, dehiscing by 2 pores, apical appendage inconspicuous; gynoecium incurved, ovules 30–50; ovary densely hairy; style slightly incurved. |
Legumes | erect, cylindrical, slightly curved, 180–350 × 50–80 mm, shallowly corrugated over seeds, dehiscing apically downward. |
somewhat pendulous, cylindrical, 70–135 × 7–10 mm, slightly corrugated over seeds, indehiscent. |
Seeds | brown, rhomboid. |
brown or dark reddish brown, obovoid. |
2n | = 24. |
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Senna covesii |
Senna multiglandulosa |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–early fall. | Flowering late spring–mid winter. |
Habitat | Sandy and gravelly desert washes, slopes, and stony hills, disturbed desert roadsides. | Open places in disturbed forests or scrub-woodlands, lava-flows, rocky riverbanks and outcrops, waste places. |
Elevation | 0–1200 m. (0–3900 ft.) | 0–500[2000–3100] m. (0–1600[6600–10200] ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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CA; Mexico (Chiapas, Guanajuato, México, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí); Central America (Guatemala); w South America [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Asia (India, Malaysia), s Africa, Atlantic Islands (Macaronesia), Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Caledonia, New Zealand), Australia]
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Discussion | Senna multiglandulosa is listed as naturalized in countries where it has been introduced as an ornamental; for example, New Zealand (C. J. Webb et al. 1988); Australia (B. R. Randell and B. A. Barlow 1998). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade) > Senna | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade) > Senna |
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Synonyms | Cassia covesii, Earleocassia covesii | Cassia multiglandulosa, C. tomentosa |
Name authority | (A. Gray) H. S. Irwin & Barneby: Phytologia 44: 499. (1979) | (Jacquin) H. S. Irwin & Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 35: 357. (1982) |
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