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Sesbania grandiflora (Linn.) Poir in Lam.,Encycl. Meth. 7:127. 1806. Baker in Hook.f.,Fl.Brit.Ind.2:115.1876; Parker, For.Pl.Punj.ed.3.126. 1956.
Robinia grandiflora Linn.
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.
Fl.Per.: October-December.
Holotype: India, Herb. Linn.922.1 (LINN).
Distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics of the New and the Old World; probably a native of Indonesia.
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