Digital Herbaria

Specimen & Label Data

Sesbania macrocarpa

Coffee-Bean

Fabaceae

Location: 2 km N of Loop 1604, on E side of Blanco Rd.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Semi-shade. Alkaline, rocky, limestone soil. Small colony.

Description: Hardy annual, about 1 m tall. Branches few, ascending. Leaves to 30 cm long; leaflets 50-70, 1-3 cm x 2-6 cm. Peduncle 3 cm long. Flowers yellow, in dangling axillary racemes, yellow, papillonaceous, 11-16 mm long. Legume oblong, about 50 mm long, 1.5 mm wide.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Aug 14, 1992
Specimen number: 478

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0724
Accession Date: Apr 26, 1994
Accession Number: 53

Annotations: (in flower and fruit) SCFRB