Sesbania cannabina var. cannabina

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Sesbania cannabina (Retz.) Poir. var. cannabina

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Sesbania sericea var. subsinguliflora Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Sesbania aculeata Pers. (misapplied)
Sesbania aculeata Poir. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): CoI (naturalised), NT, SA (native and doubtfully naturalised), Qld, NSW, Vic

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (24), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (24), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sweedman_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 40 traits from 89 records in 11 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; White_2020]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 160 mm (120-200 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 2.62 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 2.62 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 66.75 mm (7-200 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 3 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.55 cm (0.1-1 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4); shrub (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3); semi_woody (1); woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): hydrochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): water (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnyyynnnnnnn (1) [sources: White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2) [sources: RussellSmith_2012; White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 9.21 mg (6.06-12.36 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 3.5 mm (3-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid_elongated (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (1-3 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	14	24	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_2023	15	24	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	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.
Kew_2019_6	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sweedman_2006	1	3	L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.