Mimosa quadrivalvis var. floridana (Chapm.) Barneby

  • 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 quadrivalvis var. floridana (Chapm.) Barneby

  • Type

    190i. Mimosa quadrivalvis Linnaeus var. floridana (Chapman) Barneby, comb. nov. Schrankia floridana Chapman, Fl. South. U.S. ed. 2, Suppl. 2, 683. 1892. "Sandy barrens, South Florida." No typus found by Isely (1971a: 244) in hb. Chapman. at US; fragments at NY! annotated by Britton as f"from the type specimen" were collected at Manatee, Florida by J. H. Simpson. Morongia floridana (Chapman) A. Heller, Cat. N. Amer. pl. 4. 1898. Leptoglottis floridana (Chapman) Small ex Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23(3): 139. 1928. Schrankia microphylla var. floridana (Chapman) Isely, Castanea 51: 402. 1986.

  • Synonyms

    Schrankia floridana Chapm., Morongia floridana (Chapm.) A.Heller, Leptoglottis floridana (Chapm.) Small ex Britton & Rose, Schrankia microphylla var. floridana (Chapm.) Isely, Schrankia uncinata Willd.

  • Description

    Variety Description - Essentially like the sympatric forms of var. angustata with relatively long, long-beaked, distantly aculeate pods, but the lfts prominulously pallid-venulose dorsally, the midrib 1-2- branched above mid-blade or rarely simple.

    Distribution and Ecology - In palmetto scrub and on white sands of middle and n.-e. Florida and extreme s.-e. Georgia, within and partly overlapping the range of var. angustata (Isely, 1973, map 48, sub Schrankia floridana).—Fl. IV-IX.

  • Discussion

    The var. floridana resembles var. nuttallii in leaflet-venation, but the leaflets are only minutely apiculate or obtuse, not sharply triangular-apiculate, and the capitula are on the average smaller.

  • Distribution

    United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Georgia United States of America North America|