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Sesbania sesban (Egyptian riverhemp; sesbania; Egyptian Rattle Pod; Common Sesban; Chittakatti)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sesbania sesban, the Egyptian riverhemp, is a species of plant in the legume family. Synonyms include: \n* Aeschynomene aegyptiaca (Pers.) Steud. \n* Aeschynomene sesban L. \n* Emerus sesban (L.) Kuntze
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Infraspecies

Sesbania sesban muricata
Sesbania sesban punctata
Sesbania sesban sesban
Sesbania sesban var. bicolor
Sesbania sesban var. nubica
Sesbania sesban var. sesban (Egyptian riverhemp)

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [3]  0.43
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gombe National Park II 8799 Tanzania
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Mahale Mountains National Park II 398414 Tanzania

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0