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Leguminosae
Sesbania Adans.
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"A quick-growing, short-lived shrub or small tree upto 6 m tall with soft wood; young shoots striate, green, puberulent. Leaves 7.5-15 cm long including rachis, paripinnate; stipules 3-7 mm long, linear, acute, caducous; leaflets 7-28 pairs, opposite, 0.6-2.5 cm long and 0.3-0.6 cm wide, linear-oblong, glabrous, margins entire, apex obtuse and often faintly apiculate, puberulous when young, petiolules minute. Flowers 1.2-1.5 cm long, borne in 3-20 flowered, lax, axillary racemes to 14 cm long; calyx 5 mm long, campanulate, 5-nerved, teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube; corolla yellow, standard orbicualr with 2 keel-like appendages, sometimes spotted red or purple on the back, wings falcate-oblong with a minute auricle at the top of the claw, keel straight, obtuse, its petals with a small recurved auricle above the claw. Fruits(pods) 12-23 cm long and 2.5-3.8 mm in diam, cylindrical, pendulous, twisted, slightly torulose, sharply beaked, septate between the seeds, 20-30-seeded."
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Rights holder/Author | NatureServe |
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Habit: Tree
Global Range: Antilles, MX, C. America, S. FL, Key West.
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"Marshy fields, wastelands"
Perennial, Shrubs, Herbs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems less 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 orange or yellow , Petals bicolored or with red, purple or yellow streaks or spots, 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 curved, 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, Fruits quadrangulate, Fruit or valves persistent on stem, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit compressed between seeds, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 11-many seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.
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Rights holder/Author | Compiled from several sources by Dr. David Bogler, Missouri Botanical Garden in collaboration with the USDA NRCS NPDC |
Source | http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SEEM |
Occasional
Comments: Ruderal urban sites.
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Rights holder/Author | NatureServe |
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Soft-wooded, short-lived shrub or small tree. Leaves paripinnate with 10-25 pairs of opposite leaflets. Flowers in many-flowered pendulous sprays, bright yellow. Pods cylindric, very slender, up to 30 cm long. Flowers and fruits often together on the same tree.
Flowering and fruiting: September-December