Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Sesbania pachycarpa DC..

Sesbania pachycarpa DC.

HIGHER TAXON: Robinieae

GENUS: Sesbania Scop.

Sesbania pachycarpa DC. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [210]; Cameroon (N) [267]; Cape Verde (N) [210]; Chad (N) [64]; Djibouti (N) [1765]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Gabon (N) [16]; Gambia The (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Mali (N) [8]; Namibia (N) [210]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [267]; Togo (N) [23]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [24, 210] ; Illustration [236]

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

USES:
	Fibre [14]; Forage [14]

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

64.		Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
		IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

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.

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

1765.		Audru, J. et al., 1987
		Maisons-Alfort:IEMVPT.La vegetation...Republique de Djibouti