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Turi (Sesbania grandiflora)

Dlium Turi (Sesbania grandiflora)

Turi (Sesbania grandiflora) is a small tree member of Fabaceae. This soft-wooded and short-lived tree has a height of 5 meters to 12 meters and speckled roots are useful for fertilizing the soil.

S. grandiflora has large flowers, comes out of the twigs, is shaped like a butterfly when it blooms and is white or red or a combination of both. Generally two to four flowers hang, stem and sickle shaped buds.



Wood has brownish outer skin, uneven with irregular and longitudinal grooves with a layer of cork that is easily peeled off. The inner wood is slimy, runny, red and bitter taste. Branching only comes out when it reaches 5 meters.

Leaves are 1 cm to 2 cm long. The leaves are elongated, flat surface, and even pinnate. The length of the stalks is 20-30 cm. The stalk is short and contains 20-40 pairs of minor leaves.

The fruit is pod-shaped, hanging, insulated, 20-55 cm long, when the shoots are green and after old are whitish yellow. Seeds are elliptical and light brown. This tree is cultivated from seeds sown to germinate up to 80%, but sometimes it also uses stem cuttings.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Sesbanieae
Genus: Sesbania Adans. in Fam. Pl. 2: 327 (1763)
Species: Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 7: 127 (1806)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Aeschynomene grandiflora (L.) L. in Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 1050 (1763)
Agati grandiflora (L.) Desv. in J. Bot. Agric. 1: 120 (1813)
Coronilla grandiflora (L.) Willd. in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 3: 1145 (1802)
Emerus grandiflorus (L.) Hornem. in Hort. Bot. Hafn. 2: 695 (1815)
Resupinaria grandiflora (L.) Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 116 (1838)
Robinia grandiflora L. in Sp. Pl.: 722 (1753)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Agati grandiflora var. albiflora Wight & Arn. in Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 215 (1834)
Dolichos arborescens G.Don in Gen. Hist. 2: 358 (1832)
Dolichos arboreus Forssk. in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 134 (1775)
Sesbania mannii Sachet in Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 9: 13 (1987)

PUBLICATIONS

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.

Berendsohn, W.G., Gruber, A.K. & Monterrosa Salomón, J. (2009). Nova silva cusatlantica. Árboles nativos e introduciados de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29-1: 1-438.

Berhaut, J. (1976). Flore illustrée du Sénégal 5: 1-658. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du développement rural direction des eaux et forêta, Dakar.

Bhellum, B.L. (2012). Flora exotica of Jammu and Kashmir (List- I). Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 36: 33-45.

Brummitt, R.K. & al. (2007). Flora Zambesiaca 3(3): 1-258. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.

Ghazanfar, S.A. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman. volume 2. Crassulaceae - Apiaceae. Scripta Botanica Belgica 36: 1-220.

Gonzalez, F., Nelson Diaz, J. & Lowry, P. (1995). Flora Illustrada de San Andrés y Providencia: 1-281. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Colombia.

Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].

Hansen, A. & Sunding, P. (1993). Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants. 4. revised edition. Sommerfeltia 17: 1-295.

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Isely, D. (1998). Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States: 1-1007. Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.

Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Lock, J.M. & Ford, C.S. (2004). Legumes of Malesia a Check-List: 1-295. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Lock, J.M. & Heald, J. (1994). Legumes of Indo-China a check-list: 1-164. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

MacKee, H.S. (1994). Catalogue des plantes introduites et cultivées en Nouvelle-Calédonie, ed. 2: 1-164. Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.

Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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Polhill, R.M. (1990). Flore des Mascareignes 80: 1-235. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.

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Smith, A.C. (1985). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 3: 1-758. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.

Welsh, S.L. (1998). Flora Societensis: 1-420. E.P.S. Inc. Utah.

Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 10: 1-642. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

Zhu, X.Y., Zhang, R.P. & He, Y.L. (eds.) (2021). An inventory of legume species diversity of Myanmar: 1-297. China Minzu university press.

VERNACULAR NAME

Bengali: বুকো - বাক Buko, Bak
Czech: Sesbánie velkokvětá
Dutch: Agati
English: Turi, Agati, Agathi, Vegetable hummingbird, Katurai, Agastya, Agasya, Kathurumurunga, Scarlet wistaria tree, Red wisteria
Filipino: Katuray
Finnish: Nauhakolibrinpapu
German: Kolibribaum
Gujarati: Agathio
Hindi: गाछ-मुंगा - बक - अगस्ति - बसना - हटिया - हदगा - हथिया - अगस्ति Gaach-munga, Bak, Agasti, Basna, Hatiya, Hadaga, Hathya, Agasti
Hong Kong: 大花田菁
Indonesia: Turi
Japanese: アカゴチョウ
Java: Turi
Kannada: Agasi, Agase, Chinnadaare, Arisina jeenangi
Korean: 아가티
Lithuanian: Stambiažiedė agatpupė
Macao: 大花田菁
Malayalam: Agathicheera, Agathi, Agasthi, Argathi, Basna, Rudramaram, Akatti
Malaysia: Petai Belalang, Sesban, Getih, Kachang Turi, Daun Turi, Turi
Manipuri: Hawaiman
Marathi: Shevari, Hatga
Oria: Agasthi, Buko, Avise
Palauan: Katurai
Portuguese: Agáti
Russian: Сесбания крупноцветковая
Sanskrit: Varnari, Munipriya, Agasti, Drigapalaka
Sinhala: කතුරු මුරුංගා
Slovak: Sezbánia veľkokvetá
Spanish: Agatí de la India
Tamil: நெட்டி - டென்டுவா - அகத்தியர் - செவ்வகத்தி - முனி Netti,Tentua, Agathi, Sevvagatti, Muni
Telugu: Agise, Avasinana, Avesi, Avisha, Ettagise, Sukanasamu
Thai: แค
Urdu: اگست Agst

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