Sesbania benthamiana
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Sesbania benthamiana Domin
Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Sesbania benthamiana Domin var. benthamiana (nomenclatural synonym)
- Sesbania benthamiana var. orthocarpa Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Sesbania javanica Miq. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): NT, Qld
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (12), RussellSmith_2012 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 18 traits from 27 records in 5 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 22.5 mm (10-35 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_width (numerical): 3.5 mm (2-5 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2) [sources: Brock_1993; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): semi_woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- flowering_time (categorical): nyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
- seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 3 m (2-4 m) [sources: Brock_1993]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brock_1993 | 9 | 12 | J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246. |
| RussellSmith_2012 | 4 | 8 | J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |