• 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 21 November 2024.

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