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Taxon: Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight

Genus: Sesbania
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Sesbanieae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 33761
Place of publication: Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 137:15. 1909
Comment: often wrongly used for the cult., fiber-yielding S. cannabina
Name verified on: 18-Feb-2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Dec-2005
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 5 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Common names:

  • prickly sesban   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – English
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Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
    South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zimbabwe
    Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan [e.]; Iran [s.]
    China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Dadra and N. Haveli, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam

      Naturalized:
  • AFRICA
    Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  • widely naturalized

      Other:
  • exact native range obscure

References:

  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam) [lists as S. bispinosa (Jacq.) Fawcett & Rendle].
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Du Puy, D. J. et al. 2002. The Leguminosae of Madagascar. (Leg Madag)
  • Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13) [lists as S. bispinosa (Jacq.) Steud. ex W. Wight; = S. cannabina].
  • Evans, D. 1988. pers. comm. [may be synonymous with S. cannabina].
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. (Pl SAfr ed2)
  • Gillett, J. B. 1963. Sesbania in Africa (excluding Madagascar) and southern Arabia. Kew Bull. 17:129.
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt) [introd.].
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. (Leg SAsia)
  • Labat, J.-N. & D. J. Du Puy. 1997. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 19:94.
  • Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist. (Leg Malesia)
  • Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. (Leg Indochina)
  • Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. (Firewood Cr)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rudd, V. E. 1955. The American species of Aeschynomene. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 32:132. [lists as S. bispinosa (Jacq.) Spreng. ex Steud., pro syn.].
  • Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq) [mentions].
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist. (Leg China)
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Check other databases for Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight:

  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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