Mimosa pudica L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Herbaceous, or a little woody, loosely pubescent with long hairs or glabrate, branched, 5 dm. high or less, the stems and branches armed with rather stout, somewhat curved prickles 2-4 mm. long. Stipules lanceolate, striate, acuminate, 3-6 mm. long; petioles slender, with a pulvinus at the base, 2-6 cm. long, deflexed when touched; pinnae 1 pair or 2 approximate pairs, also with a pulvinus at base, 2-6 cm. long; leaflets 15-25 pairs, thin, linear, 6-10 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, folding when touched, acutish at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base; heads ovoid, axillary; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; calyx minute; petals and stamens 4; stamens pink; pods linear-oblong, 2-5-jointed, 1-1.5 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, constricted at the joints, the margins armed with slender straight prickles, otherwise glabrous.
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Distribution
Andros at Mastic Point, collected only by Keith: West Indies; continental tropical America : naturalized in the East Indies. Cultivated on New Providence. Sensitive Plant.
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