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Sesbania leptocarpa DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Robinieae

GENUS: Sesbania Scop.

Sesbania leptocarpa DC. [Preferred name]
    Sesbania arabica Steud. {Synonym}
    Sesbania mossambicensis Klotzsch {Synonym}
    Sesbania mossambicensis ssp. minimiflora J.B.Gillett {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Burkina (N) [212]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Cape Verde (U) [268]; Chad (N) [262]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Ghana (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Malawi (N) [1759]; Mali (N) [212]; Mozambique (N) [24]; Niger (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [212]; Somalia (N) [8]; Sudan (N) [267]; Zaire (N) [8]; Zambia (N) [24]; Zimbabwe (N) [1759]
  Middle East
Yemen (N) [24]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [24];
    Sudanian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [24];
    Zambezian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [24];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 212, 1759]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb, Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

212.

  Hepper, F.N., 1958
    Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

262.

  Lebrun, J.-P. & Gaston, A., 1976
    Adansonia 2:381-390.1er Suppl. Cat pl.vasc.Tchad merid

267.

  Gillett, J.B., 1963
    Kew Bull.17:91-159. Sesbania in Africa (excl.Madagascar

268.

  Sunding, P., 1999
    Check-list of plants of Cape Verde Islands.

1759.

  Lewis, G.P., 1989
    Kirkia 13(1):11-51.Sesbania in Flora Zambesiaca region
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