Many thanks Gurcharan ji for showing *Sesbania sesban*. Clearly, I have been mistaking my plants at https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/indiantreepix/8mBbxgbh9aE to be *S. sesban*. Will revise my flickr notes as soon as time permits.
Regards. Dinesh On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Sesbania sesban* (L.) Merrill in Philip. J.Sci.,Bot. 7:235. 1912. > Syn: *Aeschynomene* *sesban* Linn.; *Sesbania* *aegyptica* Poir. Lam. > > Soft-wooded short-lived tree up to 6 m tall; leaves paripinnate, up to 15 > cm long; leaflets 20-50, 10-25 mm long, up to 5 mm broad; flowers yellow, > tinged or spotted with purple, in axillary up to 20-flowered raceme, 15 cm > long; pod up to 30 cm long , 20-40 seeded. > > Photographed from Botanical Garden, Khalsa College, Delhi > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > >
