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Taxon:  Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.



Summary
Genus:
Sesbania
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Sesbanieae
Nomen number:
33782
Place of publication:
Philipp. J. Sci., C 7:235. 1912
Verified:
02/18/2005 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
145 (145  active, 142  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. subsp. punctata (DC.) J. B. Gillett (0 active accession[s])
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. subsp. sesban (11 active accession[s])
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. subsp. sesban var. bicolor (Wight & Arn.) F. W. Andrews (7 active accession[s])
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. subsp. sesban var. nubica Chiov. (5 active accession[s])
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. subsp. sesban var. sesban (0 active accession[s])
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. subsp. sesban var. zambesiaca J. B. Gillett (0 active accession[s])
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. var. muricata Baquar (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
  1. Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica
  2. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960-. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
  3. Boulos, L. 1999-. Flora of Egypt
  4. Burbidge, N. T. 1965. The Australian species of Sesbania Scopoli (Leguminosae). Austral. J. Bot. 13:124.
  5. Du Puy, D. J. et al. 2002. The Leguminosae of Madagascar
  6. Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
  7. Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Sesbania+sesban&quantity=1
  9. Gillett, J. B. 1963. Sesbania in Africa (excluding Madagascar) and southern Arabia. Kew Bull. 17:112.
  10. Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds
  11. Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
  12. Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
  13. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
  14. Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist
  15. Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist
  16. Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist
  17. Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
  18. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
  19. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970-. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
  20. Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar. 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source. Phytologia 85:106. URL: http://www.phytologia.org/
  21. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  22. Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932-. Flora of Suriname.
  23. Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India
  24. 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 4:198. URL: http://proseanet.org
  25. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966-. Flora of Iraq.
  26. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Common names
English
Egyptian sesban –
sesban –
Arabic
saisaban –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaChad  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaDjibouti  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSomalia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaAngola  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaEswatini  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natal 
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaTransvaal 
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGambia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea-Bissau  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNiger  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaTogo  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaBahrain  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaOman  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaSaudi Arabia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen n.
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan Sheng 
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaAfghanistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIraq  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBangladesh  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaAssam 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaBihar 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaDelhi 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaGoa 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaGujarat 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHaryana 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaHimachal Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKarnataka 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaKerala 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMadhya Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMaharashtra 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaManipur 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaMizoram 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaNagaland 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaOdisha 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaPuducherry 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaPunjab 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaRajasthan 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaSikkim 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTamil Nadu 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaTripura 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaUttar Pradesh 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndiaWest Bengal 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaCambodia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaIndiaAndaman and Nicobar Islands 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
2Cultivated    cult. throughout tropics
4Naturalized    natzd. throughout tropics
Native
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Rwanda
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen (n.)
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq
  • CHINA: China [Yunnan Sheng]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, India [Sikkim, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Delhi, Goa, Mizoram, Puducherry], Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
  • INDO-CHINA: India [Andaman and Nicobar Islands], Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland, Northern Territory]
Cultivated (cult. throughout tropics)
Naturalized (natzd. throughout tropics)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodder Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Environmentalagroforestry Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
Environmentalagroforestry Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Environmentalornamental Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Environmentalsoil improver Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Fuelspotential as fuelwood Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar. 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source. Phytologia 85:106. URL: http://www.phytologia.org/
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Weed  Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds


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