Sesbania grandiflora(L.) Poir.

vegetable hummingbird

WFO wfo-0000178509 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by S.MORE
fig. a S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / 2019-11-06 / obs. 55980747
Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 32815220
Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. c Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 30261589
Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by Muhammad Malik Ali
fig. d Muhammad Malik Ali, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99906937
Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. e Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14404198
Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60995194
Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60995201
Sesbania grandiflora, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 60995174

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Sesbania grandiflora is native: Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, Philippines JawaMalayaNew GuineaPhilippines
Native distribution of Sesbania grandiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Jawa JAW ASIA-TROPICAL
Malaya MLY
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aeschynomene grandiflora (L.) L.
  • Agati grandiflora (L.) Desv.
  • Agati grandiflora var. albiflora Wight & Arn.
  • Coronilla grandiflora (L.) Willd.
  • Dolichos arborescens G.Don
  • Dolichos arboreus Forssk.
  • Emerus grandiflorus (L.) Hornem.
  • Resupinaria grandiflora (L.) Raf.
  • Robinia grandiflora L.
  • Sesban coccinea (L.f.) Poir.
  • Sesban grandiflora (L.) Poir.
  • Sesban grandiflorus (L.) Poir.
  • Sesbania mannii Sachet

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.