Derivation of specific name
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pendula: drooping, pendulous.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Senna pendula (Willd.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
var. glabrata (Vogel) H.S. Irwin & Barneby Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=127110
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Shrub up to 3 m tall with long arching branches, sometimes scrambling into surrounding vegetation. Leaves pinnate with 4-5 pairs of obovate-elliptic leaflets, rounded at the apex, usually hairy; glands present on the rhachis between each pairs of leaflets. Flowers golden-yellow, in axillary racemes, up to c. 10 cm long, often crowded towards the ends of branches. Pods cylindrical and more or less inflated, straight or slightly curved, up to c. 20 cm long, brown.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Senna pendula (Willd.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
var. glabrata (Vogel) H.S. Irwin & Barneby Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=127110
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Very locally common.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Senna pendula (Willd.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
var. glabrata (Vogel) H.S. Irwin & Barneby Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=127110
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Native to South America.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Senna pendula (Willd.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby
var. glabrata (Vogel) H.S. Irwin & Barneby Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=127110
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
