Senna holosericea
General description:
Senna holosericea (Fresen) Greuter in Willdenowia 15: 429 (1986).
Conservation status:
NE
Diagnostic description:
Perennial herb or undershrub, prostrate to rect, branches densely spreading, pubescent. Leaves 5-10 cm long, petiole without gland, leaflets 3-9 pairs, oblong-elliptic, rounded, 1.5-2.5 cm long, pubescent. Inflorescence short, 10-15 flowered racemes. Flowers yellow. Sepals yellowish green 1 cm long. Petals yellow, obovate 7 mm long. Stamens 10, 2 stamens long, 5 medium sized, 3 posterior very small. Pods flat broadly falcate, oblong, 3x1 cm, conspicuously hairy. Seeds oblong-ovate, 4-5x2-3 mm, compressed.
Distribution:
Tropical coastal E. Africa,Saudi Arabia, Pakistan.
The Farasan Islands(Farasan Al-Kabir-Sajid).