Mimosa schrankioides Benth. var. schrankioides

  • Authors

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Authority

    Barneby, Rupert C. 1991. Sensitivae Censitae. A description of the genus Mimosa Linnaeus (Mimosaceae) in the New World. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 65: 1-835.

  • Family

    Mimosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Mimosa schrankioides Benth. var. schrankioides

  • Type

    318b. Mimosa schrankioides Bentham var. schrankioides. M. schrankioides Bentham, 1846, l.c., sens. str.—"British Guiana, Schomburgk, 2nd Coll. n. 470 (765)."—Holotypus, Rob. Schomburgk 470/765, K (hb. Benth.)! = NY Neg. 1786; isotypi, +B = F Neg. 1372! G!

  • Synonyms

    Mimosa schrankioides Benth.

  • Description

    Variety Description - Characters as given in key to varieties; leaflets either puberulent on both faces, then sometimes also strigose-setulose beneath, or glabrous except for cilia; pod not seen fully mature.

    Distribution and Ecology - In unrecorded habitats, but to be expected in wet savanna or on flooded stream banks at low elevations, perhaps also weedy in disturbed places, known from few localities scattered around periphery of Guayana Highland in Guyana, Estado do Roraima in Brazil (where s. to the Equator), and along río Orinoco in Bolívar, Venezuela; and somewhat disjunct (as presently appears) on río Casanare in n.-e. Colombia and in the coastal serranía of n. Venezuela, in Carabobo and Aragua, there attaining 500 m.—Fl. season uncertain. Map 48.

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  • Distribution

    Guyana South America| Venezuela South America| Carabobo Venezuela South America| Aragua Venezuela South America| Colombia South America| Brazil South America| Roraima Brazil South America|