Senna divaricata
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Description
Shrub up to 5 m high.
Leaves with 6-11 pairs of leaflets; petiole ribbed, 1-2 cm, glabrous to puberulous; rachis 5-8 cm, ribbed, thinly pilose with a 2 mm long, clavate gland between the lowermost pair of leaflets and a spindle-shaped gland between the uppermost pair and often gland-like hairs between the other leaflets.
Stipules linear-falcate, 8-10 mm, pubescent.
Sepals ovate-orbicular, glabrous, unequal, 2 outer only 1/3 of the 3 inner, 4-11 mm long.
Petals yellow (orange brown in dried specimens), broadly ovate, short clawed, glabrous, unequal, 1.5-2.5 cm long.
Stamens 10: 3 with filaments glabrous, 3 mm long and anthers curved, c. 10 mm with a 2 mm crest, opening by a single apical pore; 7 smaller with very short filaments and anthers slightly smaller, straight and without a pronounced crest, opening by two apical pores.
Ovary subsessile, sparsely puberulous; style glabrous; stigma inconspicuous.
Seeds 15-50, flattened, narrowly ovoid, c. 5 mm long.