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Sesbania sericea (Willd.)Link

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HIGHER TAXON: Robinieae

GENUS: Sesbania Scop.

Sesbania sericea (Willd.)Link [Preferred name]
    Agati sericea (Willd.)Hitchc. {Synonym}
    Coronilla sericea Willd. {Synonym}
    Sesbania aculeata var. sericea Baker {Synonym}
    Sesbania polyphylla Miq. {Synonym}
    Sesbania pubescens DC. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Coronilla Sericea [1645]; Papagallo [1430]; Tamarindillo [2157]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Benin (N) [212]; Burundi (N) [8]; Chad (N) [212]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [8]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Gabon (N) [16]; Ghana (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mali (N) [212]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Sao Tome & Principe (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [210]; Somalia (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [23]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]
  Asia
Cambodia (N) [1937]; China (N) [1937]; Indonesia (N) [1937, 3898]; Jawa (N) [3898]; Laos (N) [1970, 3465]; Sri Lanka (N) [24, 1937, 1957, 3090]; Thailand (N) [1937]; Vietnam (N) [1937]
  Caribbean
Bahamas (N) [1056, 2153]; Jamaica (N) [1056]; Martinique (N) [1056]; Trinidad & Tobago (N) [1056]
  Central America
Belize (I) [1242, 1645]; Guatemala (I) [1645]
  Indian Ocean
Aldabra (U) [1941]; Alphonse Group [1941]; Amirantes Group [1941]; Madagascar (U) [3090]; Reunion (I) [1915]; Seychelles (I) [1941]
  Middle East
Oman (N) [1939]
  North America
United States (I) [1430, 1645, 3157]; Florida [3157]
  South America
French Guiana (I) [267, 1408, 1430]; Guyana (I) [267, 1430]; Surinam (I) [1056, 1430]; Venezuela (I) [1430]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];
    Somalia-Masai freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];
    Sudanian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];
    Zambezian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 1430, 1645, 1759, 1850, 1915, 1937, 1941, 1957, 2153, 3898] ; Illustration [1937]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3898] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS, 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3157] ; Habit: Herb [1941] [3898], Shrub [3898] ; Lifespan: Annual [1915] [3898], Perennial [1915] [3898] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 1994 (Indo-China) Lock JM & Heald J, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P, 2005 (

  
USES:
  Domestic [3465]; Fibre [3465]; Toxins [14]

  
NOTES:
  Probably from Africa. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

16.

  Pellegrin, F., 1949
    Les Legumineuses du Gabon.Mem.Inst.d'Etudes Centrafr.1

23.

  Ern, H., 1984
    Leguminosae. In:Flore analytique du Togo.Brunel,J.F. et al.

24.

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

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

78.

  Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
    IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.

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

267.

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

1056.

  Adams, C.D., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Jamaica Univ. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

1242.

  Dwyer, J.D. & Spellman, D.L., 1981
    Rhodora 83(834):161-236 A List of Dicotyledoneae of Belize

1430.

  Liogier, A.H., 1988
    Desc. Flora Puerto Rico & Adjacent Is-Spermatophyta Vol. II

1645.

  Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A, 1946
    Fieldiana, Bot. 24(5):1-425 Leguminosae

1759.

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

1850.

  Isely, D., 1990
    Leguminosae, Vascular Flora S.E. U.S.A. 3(2) 1-258

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1937.

  Thuan, N. et al., 1987
    In: Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam, Vol. 23.P.

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.

1941.

  Robertson, S.A., 1989
    Flowering Plants of Seychelles. Kew

1957.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    A Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon 7: 108-381.

1970.

  Gagnepain, F., 1916
    Flore Generale de l'Indochine, Vol 2,3: Legumineuses.

2153.

  Correll, D.S. & Correll, H.B., 1982
    Flora of the Bahama Archipelago. 1692pp J.Cramer

2157.

  Liogier, A.H., 1985
    La Flore de la Espanola.III

3090.

  Summerhayes, V.S., 1931
    Trans.Linn.Soc.,London. Ser. 2; Vol. XIX:274-276

3157.

  Isely, D., 1998
    Native & naturalized Leg.of the USA.Brigham Young Univ.Utah

3465.

  Gagnepain, F., 1913
    In:Lecomte,H.(ed.), Flore Generale de L'Indochine 2, 2.

3898.

  Backer, C.A., 1963
    Flora of Java. Groningen, The Netherlands
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