Mimosa diplotricha C.Wright ex Sauvalle var. diplotricha
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Authors
Rupert C. Barneby
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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.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
120a. Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright ex Sauvalle var. diplotricha. M. diplotricha C. Wright, 1868, l.c., sens. str.—"[Wright] 621 ... En sabanas enyerbadas de Santa Cruz de los Pinos [Cuba]."—Lectotypus (Bassler, 1985: 602), Wright 3541, GH!; isotypi, K! NY
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Synonyms
Mimosa invisa Mart. ex Colla, Schrankia brachycarpa Benth., Mimosa invisa var. echinocarpa Chodat & Hassl., Mimosa ixiamensis Rusby, Morongia pilosa Standl., Schrankia pilosa (Standl.) J.F.Macbr., Mimosa invisa var. inermis Adelb., Mimosa diplotricha var. inermis (Adelb.) Verdc., Mimosa longisiliqua Lam.
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Description
Variety Description - Characters as given in key to varieties.
Distribution and Ecology - In pastures, disturbed woodland, in fallow or presently cultivated fields, at forest margins, and becoming weedy on roadsides and in waste places about habitations, in eastern Brazil sometimes in undisturbed cerrado, ascending from coastal lowlands to 1050 m on the Tocantins-Paraguay divide, discontinuously dispersed from n.-e. Argentina (Corrientes, Misiones) and s.-e. Brazil (Sta. Catarina) n.-ward., e. of the Andes, to s.- w. tropical Mexico (Nayarit) and the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti); Pacific lowland Ecuador; introduced and pestilently weedy in tropical Africa, Pacifica, and tropical n. Australia.—Fl. in S. America I—II onward, fr. II-VI; fl. in N. America (VIII-)IX-IV.—Sierrilla (Mexico). Map 17.
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Discussion
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Distribution
Mexico North America| Brazil South America| Paraguay South America| Ecuador South America| Cuba South America| Puerto Rico South America| Haiti South America| Argentina South America| Australia Oceania|