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Sesbania emerus

(Baripozo, Bequilla, Canja, Coffeebean, Danglepod, Flor De Arito, Pie De Paloma, Smooth Sesban, Tamarindillo, Vainilla, Vara De Laguna)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Barageta, Baragüeta, Barageta, Baripozo, Bequilla, Canja, Coffeebean, Danglepod, Flor De Arito, Pie De Paloma, Smooth Sesban, Tamarindillo, Vainilla, Vara De Laguna

Description

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Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Sesbania

Trees , shrubs or herbs. Leaf paripinnate , leaflets entire , stipels present or absent; stipules caducous . Inflorescence an axillary raceme . Pedicel present; bract and bracteoles mostly caducous. Calyx tube truncate or lobed or toothed , teeth subequal , shorter than the tube . Corolla glabrous . Stamens 9+1, vexillary stamen free, anthers uniform . Ovary often stipitate , ovules numerous , style in-curved, stigma capitate. Fruit long, dehiscent , transversely septate , 8-50-seeded.

A genus with about 55 species, widely distributed in the tropics and sub-tropics of the world."Sesbania". in Flora of Pakistan Page 87. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Physical Description

Habit: Shrub , Herb • Climbing: Not Climbing

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Aeschynomene emerus Aubl.
  2. Coronilla occidentalis Willd.
  3. Emerus sesban var. occidentalis (Willd.)Kuntze
  4. Sesban emerus (Aubl.)Britton & Wilson
  5. Sesban occidentalis (Willd.)Poir.
  6. Sesbania emerus (Aubl.) Urban
  7. Sesbania emerus (Aublet) Urban
  8. Sesbania occidentalis (Willd.)Pers.
  9. Sesbania picta (Cav.)Griseb.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Place of publication : Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16:149. 1919

Name verified on 05-Aug-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Sesbania

There are approximately 144 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

S. aculeata var. erubescens · S. aculeata var. parviflora · S. sesban · S. aegyptica · S. affinis · S. hepperi · S. australis · S. benthamiana · S. benthamiana var. benthamiana · S. benthamiana var. campylocarpa · S. benthamiana var. erubescens · S. benthamiana var. orthocarpa · S. bispinosa (Dunchi Fiber) · S. bispinosa var. bispinosa · S. bispinosa var. grandiflora · S. brachycarpa · S. brevipeduncula · S. brevipedunculata · S. campykocarpa · S. campylocarpa · S. candira · S. cannabiana · S. cannabina (Sesbania) · S. cannabina var. cannabina · S. cannabina var. sericea · S. cassioides · S. chippendalei · S. cinerascens · S. coccinea atollensis · S. coccinea var. atollensis · S. coccinea var. marchionica · S. coccinea var. parkinsonii · S. coccinea var. quaylei · S. coccinea var. tuamotensis · S. javanica · S. coerulescens · S. concolor · S. dalzielii · S. drummondii (Coffee Bean) · S. dummeri · S. emerus (Baripozo) · S. erubescens · S. exalata · S. exasperata · S. exasperata f. robustior · S. ferruginea · S. filiformis · S. formosa (White Dragon Tree) · S. fusca · S. geminiflora · S. goetzei · S. goetzei goetzei · S. goetzei multiflora · S. goetzii · S. gracilis · S. grandiflora (Agati) · S. grandifolia · S. greenwayi · S. guianensis · S. hawaiiensis · S. hepperi · S. herbacea (Bigpod Sesbania) · S. herbaceae (Danglepod) · S. hildebrandtii · S. hirtistyla · S. hobdyi · S. hockii · S. javanica · S. keniensis · S. laevigata · S. leptocarpa · S. leptocarpa var. minimiflora · S. longifolia · S. macowaniana · S. macrantha · S. macrantha var. levis · S. macrophylla · S. macroptera · S. madagascariensis · S. mannii · S. marchionica · S. martii · S. melanocaulis · S. microphylla · S. mossambicensis mossambicensis · S. multijuga · S. muricata · S. notialis · S. occidentalis var. multijuga · S. occidentalis var. pubescens · S. oligosperma · S. pachycarpa · S. pachycarpa dinterana · S. pachycarpa pachycarpa · S. javanica · S. paucisemina · S. paulensis · S. peruviana · S. procumbens · S. madagascariensis

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

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Footnotes

Last Revised: 2008-08-20