Taxon: Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight

See also subordinate taxa:

• Sesbania bispinosa var. bispinosa (no accessions)
• Sesbania bispinosa var. micrantha (no accessions)

Common names:

• prickly sesban   (Source: Firewood Cr ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide F Viti; Leg India)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion; 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

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West; Swaziland
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Barbados; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico
  Southern South America: Argentina - Jujuy, Salta

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. [lists as S. bispinosa (Jacq.) Fawcett & Rendle].
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Du Puy, D. J. et al. 2002. The Leguminosae of Madagascar.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. [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 United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• 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.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [introd.].
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Labat, J.-N. & D. J. Du Puy. 1997. New species and varieties in Sesbania (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae- Robinieae) from Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Adansonia 19:94.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• 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.].
• Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. [mentions].
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sesbania bispinosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sesbania bispinosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sesbania bispinosa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Aeschynomene aculeata Schreb.
  
• Aeschynomene bispinosa Jacq. [≡ Sesbania bispinosa var. bispinosa]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Coronilla aculeata Willd. [≡ Sesbania bispinosa var. bispinosa]
  
• Sesban aculeatus Poir. [≡ Sesbania bispinosa var. bispinosa]
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• Sesbania aculeata Pers. [≡ Sesbania bispinosa var. bispinosa]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Sesbania aculeata var. micrantha Chiov. [≡ Sesbania bispinosa var. micrantha]
  

Check other web resources for Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W. Wight:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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