- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Aeschynomene bispinosa Jacq.
- Synonym(s) : Sesbania aculeata (Willd.) Poir.; Coronilla aculeata Willd.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sesbania bispinosa (Jacq.) W.F.Wight
- Common name : Prikly sesban, Dhaincha
- Vernacular name : Adavi chogache (Kannada); Tentua (Oria)l Netti (Tamil); Kilannu, Kitamu, Daincha (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Scrub jungle and road sides, also marshy fields in the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional in plains to 1200m in or near cultivation.
- Key identification features : Soft prickly shrub
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 29/10/2010
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-370
- Collection Locality : Thummalapalle, Kadapa district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Prakasam district, Guntur district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district
- Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Salem district, Thanjavur district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Native : Tropical Africa, Asia
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sesbania bispinosa. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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