Senna pendula

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Senna pendula (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Cassia pendula Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Kubiak_2009 (6), McCarthy_2017 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (20), NSWFRD_2014 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 65 records in 10 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (3) [sources: Kubiak_2009; NSWFRD_2014]
fire_time_from_fire_to_flowering (numerical): 24 mo (24-24 mo) [sources: NSWFRD_2014]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 120 mm (100-140 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (20-80 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3 cm (2-4 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_woody (1); shrub (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); nnyyyyyyynnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; NSWFRD_2014]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (6-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.63 mg/mm3 (0.56-0.69 mg/mm3) [sources: McCarthy_2017]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 5.5 m (3-8 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	12	20	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	10	13	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kubiak_2009	4	6	P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
McCarthy_2017	1	5	J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NSWFRD_2014	5	5	B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
NHNSW_2022	4	4	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.