Belongs within: Fabales.
Senna is a pantropical genus of legumes includes herbs, shrubs and trees, most of which produce bright yellow flowers.
Characters (from Hickman 1993): Perennial, shrub, tree, unarmed or spines weak. Leaves even-1-pinnate, alternate; stipules sometimes small or ephemeral; leaflets 2–10 (18) pairs. Inflorescence a raceme or panicle, axillary or terminal. Flowers generally slightly bilateral, generally showy; sepals more or less free; petals free, generally yellow; stamens free, 7 fertile, 3 sterile, anthers generally larger than filaments, opening by terminal pores. Fruits dehiscent or not. Seeds few to many.
<==Senna G04
|--S. acclina B00
|--S. aciphylla B00
|--S. alata LK14
|--S. armata [=Cassia armata] H93
|--S. artemisioides G04
| |--S. a. ssp. artemisioides G04
| |--S. a. ssp. filifolia G04
| |--S. a. ssp. helmsii EF04
| |--S. a. ssp. oligophylla EF04
| `--S. a. ssp. × sturtii MLP09
|--S. auriculata PP07
|--S. barclayana B00
|--S. bicapsulatus H06
|--S. chateliana KM08
|--S. coriaceae B00
|--S. coronilloides B00
|--S. corymbosa H06
|--S. covesii [=Cassia covesii] H93
|--S. didymobotrya H06
|--S. glutinosa EF04
| |--S. g. ssp. glutinosa EF04
| `--S. g. ssp. pruinosa EF04
|--S. goniodes LK14
|--S. hirsuta H06
|--S. leptoclada B00
|--S. ligustrina J87
|--S. magnifolia B00
|--S. marksiana B00
|--S. multiglandulosa [incl. Cassia tomentosa] H93
|--S. nemophila B00
|--S. notabilis LK14
|--S. obtusifolia PP07
|--S. occidentalis PP07
|--S. odorata B00
|--S. oligoclada G14
|--S. pendula H06
| |--S. p. var. pendula H06
| `--S. p. var. glabrata H06
|--S. petiolaris B00
|--S. planitiicola LK14
|--S. pleurocarpa G04
|--S. queenslandica B00
|--S. reticulata B14
|--S. retusa B00
|--S. septemtrionalis H06
|--S. sericea MLP09
|--S. siamea B00
|--S. surattensis LK14
| |--S. s. ssp. surattensis LK14
| `--S. s. ssp. sulfurea LK14
|--S. symonii LK14
|--S. timoriensis LK14
|--S. tora J07
`--S. venusta LK14
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[B14] Bouchard, P. (ed.) 2014. The Book of Beetles: A lifesize guide to six hundred of nature's gems. Ivy Press: Lewes (United Kingdom).
[B00] Braby, M. F. 2000. Butterflies of Australia: their identification, biology and distribution vol. 1. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood (Victoria).
[EF04] Etten, E. J. B. van, & J. E. D. Fox. 2004. Vegetation classification and ordination of the central Hamersley Ranges, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87 (2): 63–79.
[G14] Gibson, L. A. 2014. Biogeographic patterns on Kimberley islands, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 245–280.
[G04] Gibson, N. 2004. Flora and vegetation of the Eastern Goldfields Ranges: part 6. Mt Manning Range. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87 (2): 35–47.
[H06] Henderson, L. 2006. Comparisons of invasive plants in southern Africa originating from southern temperate, northern temperate and tropical regions. Bothalia 36 (2): 201–222.
[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).
[J07] Jadhav, D. 2007. Ethno-medicinal plants used by Bhil tribe of Matrunda, district Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 203–206.
[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1–136.
[KM08] Keighery, G. J., & W. Muir. 2008. Vegetation and vascular flora of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 75: 11–19.
[LK14] Lyons, M. N., G. J. Keighery, L. A. Gibson & T. Handasyde. 2014. Flora and vegetation communities of selected islands off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 205–244.
[MLP09] McKenzie, N. L., S. van Leeuwen & A. M. Pinder. 2009. Introduction to the Pilbara Biodiversity Survey, 2002–2007. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 78 (1): 3–89.
[PP07] Pandey, R. P., & P. M. Padhye. 2007. Studies on phytodiversity of Arid Machia Safari Park-Kailana in Jodhpur (Rajasthan). Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 15–78.
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