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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: August-February.
Type: Holotype: Herb. Linn. 922.12 (LINN).
Distribution: Distribution: Cosmopolitan in tropics of the Old World; commonly cultivated as a quick growing hedge plant.
Illustration: Sesbania sesban var. sesban  (Illustration)
Map Location: B,C-6 Peshawar, Schlagintweit 2589 (E); C-7 Rawalpindi, Siddiqi 26 (RAW); Jhelum, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 577 (RAW,K) ; D-7 Lyallpur, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 1490 (RAW); Montgomery (Sahiwal), H.H. Rich 427 (K); D-8 Lahore, cultivated, Thomson s.n. March 1846 (K); Walton, near Lahore, R.R.Stewart 14722 (RAW); F-5 Khairpur, Jafri 1212 (KUH); G-4 Karachi University Campus, Rafia Majeed s.n. 9.11.63 (KUH); Karachi, Nazimabad, A.A. Qureshi, s.n., 28.2.1957 (KUH); University Campus, Anwar Iqbal s.n. 5.8.1961 (KUH); G-5 Old Mirpur Khas, Sultanul Abedin 4286 (KUH); Jamshoro, Babu Beg s.n. 12.11.1970 (KUH).

 

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Tree, soft-wooded, short-lived, 1-7 m tall; young stem pubescent. Leaf paripinnate, rachis 4-13 cm long; leaflets 18-50, c. 7-25 mm long, c. 3-5 mm wide, linear-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, glabrous; stipules c. 5-7 mm long. Inflorescence an axillary raceme; 3-20-flowered, up to 15 cm long. Bract and bracteoles up to 3 mm long, caducous. Pedicel up to 12 mm long, Calyx glabrous, except the margin, c. 5 mm long, teeth c. 1 mm or less, broadly triangular. Corolla yellow, tinged with or spotted purple. Vexillum c. 13-14 mm long. Fruit c. 15-30 cm long, up to 5 mm wide, 20-40-seeded.
 
 
 
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