Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Pers.:
Australia (Oceania)
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Burma (Asia)
Bangladesh (Asia)
Cambodia (Asia)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Indonesia (Asia)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
India (Asia)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
United States (North America)
Madagascar (Africa & Madagascar)
Laos (Asia)
Thailand (Asia)
Philippines (Asia)
Vietnam (Asia)
Pakistan (Asia)
Taiwan (Asia)
Malaysia (Asia)
China (Asia)
Venezuela (South America)

Dolichos arborescens G. Don:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics of the New and the Old World; probably a native of Indonesia.

Cultivated and naturalised in tropical Africa and Asia, probably a native of Indonesia.

Soft-wooded tree, 6-10 m tall. Leaf c. 13-30 cm long; leaflets 30-60, c. 1.8-3 cm long, 5-10 mm broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous; stipules minute, deciduous. Inflorescence an axillary raceme, 2-4-flowered. Calyx c. 2.5 cm long, glabrous, somewhat 2-lipped. Corolla white or red. Vexillum c. 7-10 cm. Fruit c. 30-50 cm long, c. 8 mm wide, 25-35-seeded, svture much thickened.

Perennial, Trees, Woody throughout, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems l ess than 1 m tall, Stems 1-2 m tall, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules deciduous, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves even pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Stipels present at base of leaflets, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Flowers in axillary clusters or few-floweredracemes, 2-6 flowers, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence axillary, Bracteoles present, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals white, Petals pinkish to rose, Petals red, Petals reddish brown, maroon, Banner petal suborbicular, broadly rounded, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing petals auriculate, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel petals auriculate, spurred, or gibbous, Keel abruptly curv ed, or spirally coiled, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens diadelphous, 9 united, 1 free, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit stipitate, Fruit unilocular, Fruit tardily or weakly dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit or valves persistent on stem, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit compressed between seeds, Fruit beaked, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 11-many seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

200 m

Fl.Per.: October-December.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Species: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked

Reasons: Native of Asia widely though sparingly distributed by culitvation and occasionally spontaneous or naturalized in southern Florida, through most of the West Indies from Bahamas and Cuba to St. Vincent and Trinidad and from southern Mexico through most countries of Central America to South America.