Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Sesbania tetraptera Baker.

Sesbania tetraptera Baker

HIGHER TAXON: Robinieae

GENUS: Sesbania Scop.

Sesbania tetraptera Baker [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Botswana (N) [1759]; Chad (N) [262]; Ethiopia (N) [24, 1759]; Malawi (N) [8, 1759]; Mozambique (N) [210, 1759]; Niger (N) [78]; South Africa (N) [210, 1759]; Sudan (N) [210, 1759]; Tanzania (N) [210, 1759]; Zambia (N) [1759]; Zimbabwe (N) [8, 1759]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];
    Zambezian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [210, 1759] ; Distribution Map [267] ; Illustration [24, 267]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Annual ; 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

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

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

1759.		Lewis, G.P., 1989
		Kirkia 13(1):11-51.Sesbania in Flora Zambesiaca region