Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.

Shrub or small tree ; up to 3 m tall , short-lived , with a deep root system . Stems soft , woody , glabrous or glabrescent , pale green . Leaves paripinnate with ± 12 pairs of leaflets ; rachis 4-14 cm ; leaflets 10-20 x 3-4 mm , oblong , obtuse with a small mucro , glabrous , narrow triangular ; stipules ± 5 mm , narrow triangular . Inflorescences in 4–20-flowered axillary racemes ; pedicels up to 12 mm , slender . Flowers yellow ; calyx 4-5 mm , lobes 0 . 5-1 mm , triangular , acute ; corolla with standard petal yellow within , pale yellow with violet to purple flecks without , 12-15 x ± 18 mm , appendages with free tips , not adnate to the claw ; wings yellow ; keel pale green to white ; style glabrous , c . 5 mm long . Fruit pod , up to 20(–30) x 0 . 4 cm , erect , straight , with a beak ± 4 mm , slightly torulose , 20–40-seeded . Seeds 3‒4 . 5 mm × 2 mm , subcylindrical , ends rounded , olive-green or brown , usually mottled . (Ref . ... Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Aeschynomene sesban L.
Coronilla sesban (L.) Moench
Emerus sesban (L.) Hornem.
Sesbania aegyptiaca Poir.