Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Sesbania formosa
Fabaceae Lindl.
Sesbania formosa (F.Muell.) N.T.Burb. , legitimate, scientific
Burbidge, N.T. (1965), The Australian species of Sesbania Scopoli (Leguminosae). Australian Journal of Botany 13(1): 115-118, Figs 1 (map), 5, pl. 5, 6 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Agati formosa F.Muell. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 212
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 241 BHL [secondary reference]
Crisp, M.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 159, Fig. 181 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agati formosa F.Muell. legitimate misapplication: Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 212 common name: White dragon tree [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 99 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 36 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae). Flora of the Kimberley Region: 434, Fig. 131F [secondary reference]
common name: White Dragon Tree [n/a] common name: Corkwood [n/a]
Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees. Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system: 7, 39, 113, pl. 51(f), Code 900 [secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 1: 109, 119, 184, Code 900 [secondary reference]
common name: Vegetable Humming Bird [n/a] common name: Dragon Tree [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2: 158, Code 900 [secondary reference]
Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]
common name: Dragon flower Tree [n/a] common name: White Dragon Tree [n/a] common name: Water Tree [n/a] common name: Swamp Corkwood [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 305 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 98, Fig. 28 [secondary reference]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 160 [secondary reference]
common name: White Dragon Tree [n/a] common name: Swamp Corkwood [n/a]
  • Vernacular: rirrwal (Yawuru)
  • Vernacular: rirrwal (Bardi)
  • Vernacular: arninyban (Bardi)
Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 67 [secondary reference]
Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 100, Fig. 19 [secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines: Code 900 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agati formosum F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Agati formosa F.Muell. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir. legitimate by Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 212
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld (doubtfully naturalised)