Sesbania sesban

Sesbania sesban

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fabales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Sesbanieae
Genus: Sesbania
Species: Sesbania sesban
Subspecies: S. s. subsp. sesban

Name

Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr., 1912

Synonyms

• Aeschynomene sesban L.
• Coronilla sesban (L.) Moench
• Emerus sesban (L.) Hornem.
• Sesbania aegyptiaca Poir.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: Tropical Africa Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe Continental: Asia temperate Regional: Indian subcontinent Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Pakistan Regional: Peninsular Arabia Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Introduced into: Andaman Is., Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cuba, Egypt, Hainan, Iraq, Jamaica, Laos, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Palestine, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Réunion, Sinai, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Himalaya References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Merrill, E.D. , 1912. Philipp. J. Sci., C 7:235.

Additional references

• Dufour-Dror, J.M. & Fragman-Sapir, O. in Dufour-Dror, J.M. (2019). Alien Plant Species in Natural & Disturbed Areas in Israel Alien Invasive Plants in Israel, ed. 2: 1-246. Dan Perry Pub., Nature & Parks Authority, Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection.
• Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
• Baksh-Comeau, Y.S, Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D. (†), Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. 2016. An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250(1): 1–431. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.250.1.1 . Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Sesbania sesban in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 31. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2021. Sesbania sesban. Published online. Accessed: May 31 2021.
• Tropicos.org 2021. Sesbania sesban. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 31 May 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. Sesbania sesban. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 31. Reference page. 
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Sesbania sesban in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names

English: Egyptian riverhemp

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