Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.
| Synonym : | Aeschynomene sesban L. Coronilla sesban Willd. Emerus sesban (L.) Kuntze Sesbania aegyptiaca Poir |
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| Bangla Name : | Goyonti, Kathsola,Dhaincha,Dhoineyekeng(Khumi), Ynupen-bawn(Rakhaing),Sendopui(Pangkhoa). |
| English Name : | Common sesban, Egyptian rattle pod |
| Family : | Fabaceae |
| Disease : | Galactagogue, stimulant, emmenagogue, astringent, diarrhoea, enlargement of the spleen, itches, skin |
| Description : | A quick-growing, short-lived shrub or small tree; young shoots striate, green, puberulent. Leaves 7.5-15 cm long including rachis, paripinnate; stipules linear, acute, caducous; leaflets 7-28 pairs, opposite, linear-oblong, glabrous, margins entire, apex obtuse and often faintly apiculate, puberulous when young, petiolules minute. Flowers borne in 3-20 flowered, lax, axillary racemes; calyx campanulate, 5-nerved, teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube; corolla yellow, standard orbicualr with 2 keel-like appendages, sometimes spotted red or purple on the back, wings falcate-oblong with a minute auricle at the top of the claw, keel straight, obtuse, its petals with a small recurved auricle above the claw. Fruits(pods) cylindrical, pendulous, twisted, slightly torulose, sharply beaked, septate between the seeds, 20-30-seeded. |
| Distribution : | This species found throughout Bangladesh. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Gum in endosperm of seeds consists of galatose and mannose. |
| Uses : | This plant is used in Galactagogue, stimulant, emmenagogue, astringent, diarrhoea, enlargement of the spleen, itches, skin eruptions, anthelmintic, diabetes, colic, skin diseases, catarrh. |
| Habit : | Shrub |