Sesbania formosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Sesbania
- Species
- Sesbania formosa
- Scientific Name
- Sesbania formosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sesbania formosa
Sesbania formosa (common names - White dragon tree, Vegetable humming bird, Swamp corkwood; Dragon tree; Dragon flower tree) is a leguminous tree native to northern Australia, first described in 1860 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Agati formosum, from specimens collected the banks of the Victoria and Fitzmaurice Rivers. It was transferred to the genus, Sesbania, by Nancy Burbidge in 1965.
It is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and grows in tropical wetlands, to heights of 20 to 30 feet, in closed forests or swampy sites, from sea level to 100 m.
...Sesbania formosa in languages:
- Chinese
- 美麗田菁
- English
- Corkwood
- Lithuanian
- Dailioji agatpupė
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Sesbania benthamiana
- Sesbania bispinosa
- Sesbania brachycarpa
- Sesbania burbidgeae
- Sesbania campylocarpa
- Sesbania cannabina
- Sesbania chippendalei
- Sesbania cinerascens
- Sesbania coccinea
- Sesbania coerulescens
- Sesbania concolor
- Sesbania drummondii
- Sesbania emerus
- Sesbania erubescens
- Sesbania exasperata
- Sesbania formosa
- Sesbania goetzei
- Sesbania grandiflora
- Sesbania herbacea
- Sesbania hirtistyla
- Sesbania javanica
- Sesbania keniensis
- Sesbania leptocarpa
- Sesbania longifolia
- Sesbania macowaniana
- Sesbania macrantha
- Sesbania macroptera
- Sesbania madagascariensis
- Sesbania melanocaulis
- Sesbania microphylla
- Sesbania notialis
- Sesbania oligosperma
- Sesbania pachycarpa
- Sesbania paucisemina
- Sesbania procumbens
- Sesbania punicea
- Sesbania rostrata
- Sesbania sericea
- Sesbania sesban
- Sesbania simpliciuscula
- Sesbania somalensis
- Sesbania speciosa
- Sesbania sphaerocarpa
- Sesbania subalata
- Sesbania sudanica
- Sesbania tetraptera
- Sesbania tomentosa
- Sesbania transvaalensis
- Sesbania vesicaria
- Sesbania virgata
- Sesbania wildemanii