Mimosa acantholoba (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Poir. var. acantholoba

  • 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 acantholoba (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Poir. var. acantholoba

  • Type

    50e. Mimosa acantholoba (Willdenow) Poiret var. acantholoba. M. acantholoba Poiret, 1810, l.c., sens. str. Acacia acantholoba Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow, Sp. pl. 4: 1089. 1806.—"Habitat in America meridionali.", but according to Humboldt, Bonpland &

  • Synonyms

    Acacia acantholoba Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Acacia courrantiana DC., Mimosa eurycarpoides B.L.Rob., Neomimosa eurycarpoides (B.L.Rob.) Britton & Rose, Mimosa acantholoba (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Poir., Neomimosa russellii Britton & Rose

  • Description

    Variety Description - Characters of the species, as modified by key to varieties.

    Distribution and Ecology - In thorn-scrub, on brushy stream-banks and in temporarily wet or flooded savanna thickets, surviving in pasture hedgerows and along roadside fences, below 300 m, locally plentiful in arid lowlands of Pacific Ecuador s. from s. depto. Esmeraldas and in adj. n.-w. Peru (Tumbes, Piura and Lambayeque), lat. 0°30'N-6°S; Galápagos Is. (S. Cristóbal); and disjunct on the coastal plain and lower foothills of Sa. Madre in Sinaloa, Mexico (valley of río de Buluarte, near 23°N).—Fl. in S. America primarily X-III, sporadically through the year. Map 7.

  • Discussion

     

  • Distribution

    Ecuador South America| Peru South America| Mexico North America| Galápagos Islands Ecuador South America|