Sesbania grandiflora

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Common Names

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Description

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

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 10-12' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Aeschynomene coccinea L.f.
2. Aeschynomene grandiflora (L.)L.
3. Agati coccinea (L.f.)Desv.
4. Agati grandiflora (L.)Desv.
5. Agati grandiflora var. albiflora Wight & Arn.
6. Agati grandiflora var. coccinea (L.f.)Wight & Arn.
7. Coronilla coccinea (L.f.)Willd.
8. Coronilla grandiflora (L.)Willd.
9. Dolichos arboreus Forssk.
10. Emerus grandiflorus (L.)Kuntze
11. Resupinaria grandiflora (L.)Raf.
12. Robinia grandiflora L.
13. Sesban coccinea (L.f.)Poir.
14. Sesban grandiflora (L.)Poir.
15. Sesban grandiflorus (L.)Poir.
16. Sesbania bispinosa grandiflora Du Puy & Labat
17. Sesbania coccinea (L.f.)Pers.

Notes

Publishing author : L. Publication : Sp. Pl., ed. 2. 2: 1050 1763 Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Place of publication: Syn. pl. 2(2):316. 1807

Name verified on 03-Oct-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Feb-2004

Similar Species

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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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Herbier de l'Université Louis Pasteur, herbier de nouvelle-caledonie
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8856556
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-13606
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 154312
• GRIN Nomen Number: 33770
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 26953
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: AGGR9
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 17921

Footnotes

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