Two new species and one reapplied name in Sesbania Scop. (Fabaceae, Sesbanieae) for Australia
C. L. GrossEcosystem Management and the NCW Beadle Herbarium, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia. Email: cgross@une.edu.au
Australian Systematic Botany 23(6) 401-414 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB09041
Submitted: 15 September 2009 Accepted: 21 October 2010 Published: 23 December 2010
Abstract
For over 40 years, the names Sesbania benthamiana Domin, S. javanica Miq. and S. sesban (L.) Merr. have been applied to Australian plant specimens. A review of the types assigned to these taxa has resolved that the names S. javanica Miq. and S. sesban (L.) Merr. do not apply to species native to Australia and S. benthamiana has been misapplied. The name S. burbidgei is proposed to account for specimens previously identified as S. sesban and S. muelleri is proposed to account for specimens previously assigned as S. benthamiana. The name S. benthamiana is reapplied to material previously known as S. javanica.
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