Trees & Plants

Silky sesban

Kathurumurang

Sesbania sericea (Willd.) Link

Fairly common in wetland areas of Used as green manure and animal fodder. As a nitrogen fixer, it is also ets planted for soil improvement. The seeds are used to produce a natural gum and resin, useful to treat skin diseases. Gum from the endosperm produces a smooth, light colore

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uses: Used as green manure and animal fodder. As a nitrogen fixer, it is also ets planted for soil improvement. The seeds are used to produce a natural gum and resin, useful to treat skin diseases. Gum from the endosperm produces a smooth, light colored, coherent and elastic film used for sizing textiles, paper products and for thickening and stabilizing solutions. Th reat & damage: The plant can grow in dense thickets and displace native vegetation and wildlife. or
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Agati sericea (Willd.) Hitchc., Coronilla sericea Willd.
description: Annual or biennial subshrubs, pubescent silky when young; angles of stems often with minute prickles. Leaves pinnate, leaf-rachis 10-15 cm long; leaflets × 20–25 pairs, to 20 4 mm; stipules ligulate- lanceolate, erect, caducous. Racemes axillary, 2-6-flowered, rachis, to 5 cm long, softly silky pilose; pedicels sparsely pilose, to 5 mm long. Calyx glabrous. Standard for petal yellow with a few flecks of violet, × cordate at base, 8–10 6 mm, emarginate; × Th wing petals 5–6 3–3.5 mm, claw 2.5 mm; keel petals 3 mm long, incurved, 4–5 mm wide, the basal tooth obscure, claw 4–5 mm long. Stamens diadelphous; filament- sheath 6–8 mm, free parts incurved, 2–3 mm; anthers 0.4 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style glabrous, 2 mm long. Pod straight or slightly curved, not torulose, to 15 cm long; seeds 15–30, brown.
native range: Tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Southeast Asia
distribution: Widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical areas
english names: Silky sesban · Papagayo
flowering fruiting: December - June
occurrence maldives: Fairly common in wetland areas of