Mimosa pellita var. hispida

Title

Mimosa pellita var. hispida

Authors

Rupert C. Barneby

Scientific Name

Mimosa pellita var. hispida (Willd.) Barneby

Description

266c. Mimosa pellita Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow var. hispida (Willdenow) Barneby, stat. nov. M. hispida Willdenow, Sp. pl. 4: 1037. 1806.—"Habitat ad Caracas ... Bredemeyer."—Holotypus, B-WILLD 19081, seen in microform!; isotypus (?), Bredemeyer 9, W! — Equated by Bentham, 1875: 438, with M. asperata.

Essentially like var. pellita except for narrow pod and small seeds, the stems appressed-strigose, armed close below nodes with infrastipular and on most intemodes with one infrapetiolar, all strongly recurved aculei, the prickles of lf-stks mostly straight; pods when well fertilized 55-70 x 5.5-7 mm, 12-20-seeded, the articles 2.5-3.5 mm long, hirsute with narrowly ascending tawny setae, individually indehiscent; 3-3.7 x 2.5 mm.

In wet scrub-savanna below 800 m, known only from the Coastal Cordillera of n. Venezuela in edos. Carabobo, Aragua, Distrito Federal, and Miranda.—Fl. X-II(-?).