Sesbania sericea

Sesbania sericea

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 sericea

Name

Sesbania sericea (Willd.) Link, 1822

Synonyms

• Aeschynomene pubescens Vahl ex DC., Prod. 2: 265 (1825)
• Agati sericea (Willd.) Hitchc., Missouri Bot. Gard. Rep. 4: (1893) 75
• Coronilla pubescens Schumach. & Thonn.
• Coronilla sericea Willd., Enum. Pl. Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol. 773 (1809)
• Emerus pubescens (Vahl ex DC.) Schum. & Thonn., Beskr. Guin. Pl. 354 (1827)
• Sesbania laevigata Afr.Fern. & E.P.Nunes
• Sesbania pubescens DC., Prodr. 2: 265 (1825)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: Tropical Africa Angola, Benin, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaïre Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Arabian Peninsula Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Introduced into: Bahamas, Belize, Brazil Northeast, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Jawa, Laos, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Réunion, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Texas, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Windward Is. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Link, J.H.F. 1822. Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Berolinensis Altera. Pars 2. 478 pp., G. Reimer, Berlin. BHL Reference page. : 244.

Additional references

• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. 2012. Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du Nord. Volume 4: Dicotyledoneae: Fabaceae – Nymphaeaceae. Conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève, ISBN 978-2-8277-0126-1, 431 pp. PDF Reference page. 
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Sesbania sericea 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 sericea. Published online. Accessed: May 31 2021.
• Tropicos.org 2021. Sesbania sericea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 31 May 2021.
• Hassler, M. 2021. Sesbania sericea. 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. 
• Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Sesbania sericea. Accessed: 31 May 2021.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Sesbania sericea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names

English: papagayo

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