Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Sesbania coerulescens Harms.

Sesbania coerulescens Harms

HIGHER TAXON: Robinieae

GENUS: Sesbania Scop.

Sesbania coerulescens Harms [Preferred name]
Sesbania caerulescens Harms {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [267]; Namibia (N) [267]; Zaire (N) [236]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [236]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Zambezian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [236];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [28, 236, 1759] ; Illustration [1759]

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

28.		White, F., 1962
		Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

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

236.		Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
		Flore du Congo Belge, Vol 5; Galegeae, Hedysareae.

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