Common Sesban, a soft-wooded, quick-growing short-lived shrub, is a main shade crop in tea, turmeric, pan leaf and sweet orange plantations. The leaves are long and paripinnate. The flowers are yellow or yellow spotted, red to purple or with standard petals colored purple or brown from outside. The pods are pendulous, weak, distinctly torulose, twisted, sharply beaked, 20-30-seeded, and septate.
Common Sesban has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. It is used to cure itching and various skin eruptions.
It is also known as Jayantika and Jayanti.
