Sesbania

Sesbania

Sesbania drummondii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Clade:	Meso-Papilionoideae
Clade:	Non-protein amino acid-accumulating clade
Clade:	Hologalegina
Clade:	Robinioids
Tribe:	Sesbanieae Hutch.
Genus:	Sesbania Adans. (1763), nom. & orth. cons.
Species^[1]
60; see text
Synonyms^[1]
Agati Adans. (1763), nom. rej. Darwinia Raf. (1817), nom. illeg. Daubentonia DC. (1826) Daubentoniopsis Rydb. (1923) Glottidium Desv.(1813) Monoplectra Raf. (1817) Resupinaria Raf. (1838) Sesban Adans. (1763), orth. var.

Sesbania is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, and the only genus found in tribe Sesbanieae. Riverhemp is a common name for plants in this genus.^[2] Notable species include the rattlebox (Sesbania punicea), spiny sesbania (Sesbania bispinosa), and Sesbania sesban, which is used in cooking. Plants of this genus, some of which are aquatic, can be used in alley cropping to increase the soil's nitrogen content. The species of rhizobia responsible for nitrogen fixation in Sesbania rostrata is Azorhizobium caulinodans.

Some 60 species are currently accepted, with about 39 still unresolved. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, in the Americas from the southern United States to northern Argentina, in sub-Saharan Africa, in southern Asia, and in New Guinea, Australia, and the Pacific.^[1] The largest number of species are found in Africa, and the remainder in Australia, Hawaii, and Asia.^[3]

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Fossil record

Fossil seed pods from the upper Oligocene resembling Sesbania have been found in the Hungarian locality of Eger Wind-brickyard. The fossil species grew in a swampy and riparian environment.^[4]

List of species

60 species are accepted:^[1]

Sesbania benthamiana Domin
Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W.Wight
Sesbania brachycarpa F.Muell.
Sesbania brevipedunculata J.B.Gillett
Sesbania burbidgeae C.L.Gross
Sesbania campylocarpa (Domin) N.T.Burb.
Sesbania cannabina (Retz.) Poir.
Sesbania chippendalei N.T.Burb.
Sesbania cinerascens Welw. ex Baker
Sesbania coccinea (L.f.) Poir.
Sesbania coerulescens Harms
Sesbania concolor J.B.Gillett
Sesbania dalzielii E.Phillips & Hutch.
Sesbania drummondii (Rydb.) Cory
Sesbania dummeri E.Phillips & Hutch.
Sesbania emerus (Aubl.) Urban – coffeebean
Sesbania erubescens (Benth.) N.T.Burb.
Sesbania exasperata Kunth
Sesbania formosa (F.Muell.) N.T.Burb.
Sesbania goetzei Harms
Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir.
Sesbania greenwayi J.B.Gillett
Sesbania hepperi J.B.Gillett
Sesbania herbacea (Mill.) McVaugh – bigpod sesbania
Sesbania hirtistyla J.B.Gillett
Sesbania javanica Miq.
Sesbania keniensis J.B.Gillett
Sesbania leptocarpa DC.
Sesbania longifolia DC.
Sesbania macowaniana Schinz
Sesbania macrantha Welw. ex E.Phillips & Hutch.
Sesbania macroptera Micheli
Sesbania madagascariensis Du Puy & Labat
Sesbania marchionica F.Br.
Sesbania melanocaulis Bidgood & Friis
Sesbania microphylla Harm.
Sesbania mossambicensis Klotzsch
Sesbania muelleri C.L.Gross
Sesbania notialis J.B.Gillett
Sesbania oligosperma Taub.
Sesbania pachycarpa DC.
Sesbania paucisemina J.B.Gillett
Sesbania punicea (Cav.) Benth. – rattlebox
Sesbania quadrata J.B.Gillett
Sesbania rostrata Bremek. & Oberm.
Sesbania sericea (Willd.) Link – papagayo
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. – Egyptian riverhemp
Sesbania simpliciuscula F.Muell. ex Benth.
Sesbania somaliensis J.B.Gillett
Sesbania speciosa Taub. ex Engl.
Sesbania sphaerocarpa Welw.
Sesbania subalata J.B.Gillett
Sesbania sudanica J.B.Gillett
Sesbania tetraptera Hochst. ex Baker
Sesbania tomentosa Hook. & Arn. – Ōhai (Hawaii)
Sesbania transvaalensis J.B.Gillett
Sesbania uliginosa (Roxb.) G.Don
Sesbania vesicaria (Jacq.) Elliott
Sesbania virgata (Cav.) Poir. – wand riverhemp
Sesbania wildemannii E.Phillips

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sesbania Adans. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Sesbania". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
^ "The distribution of Sesbania species in the PANESA region". fao.org.
^ Distribution of Legumes in the Tertiary of Hungary by L. Hably, Advances in Legume Systematics: Part 4, The Fossil Record, Ed. P.S. Herendeen & Dilcher, 1992, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ISBN 0 947643 40 0