Annual or short-lived perennial herb ; up to 2 m high , pubescent silky when young . Stems erect , pubescent throughout , often with minute prickles . Leaves paripinnate with 20–25 pairs of leaflets ; stipules ± 5 mm , erect , lanceolate , falling soon ; rachis up to 15 cm , pubescent ; leaflets 15-30 x 5-6 mm , oblong , obtuse , glabrous above pubescent beneath . Inflorescences in 2–6-flowered axillary racemes ; pedicels sparsely pilose , to 5 mm long . Flowers yellow ; calyx 3-4 mm , lobes ± 1 mm , triangular , acute , ± pubescent on the margins ; corolla with standard petal yellow with dark purple flecks , ± 10 mm , appendages narrow , adnate to the claw ; wings yellow ; keel pale green to white ; ovary glabrous ; style glabrous , 2 mm long . Fruit pod , ± 12 cm , with beak ± 5 mm , curved , pendulous , slightly torulose , 15–30-seeded . Seeds brown . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
No Data
Least Concern - Global Assessment
Not Common
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Aeschynomene pubescens Vahl ex DC.
Agati sericea (Willd.) Hitchc.
Coronilla sericea Willd.
Emerus pubescens (DC.) Schumach. & Thonn.
Sesbania laevigata Afr.Fern. & E.P.Nunes
No data
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Silky Sesban
Not used traditionally.
*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org
