Mimosa pseudoradula var. detonsa

Title

Mimosa pseudoradula var. detonsa

Authors

Rupert C. Barneby

Scientific Name

Mimosa pseudoradula var. detonsa Barneby

Description

405a. Mimosa pseudoradula Glaziou ex Barneby var. detonsa Barneby, var. nov., a var. pseudoradula praesertim caule inferiori, petiolis foliolorumque margine setis parvis minimis nullisve indutis, nec longe patule hispido-setosis diversa. — Brazil. Distrito Federal: Chapada da Contagem ±20 km e. of Brasília, on limestone, 700-1000 m, 16.VIII.1964 (fl, fr), Irwin & Soderstrom 5190.—Holotypus, UB; isotypi, K, LE, NY, R, US.

M. harmsiana Glaziou, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53(Mém. 3b): 185. 1906, nom. nud.—"Entre Chico Lobo et Cabeceiras do Rio Torto [Distrito Federal, Brazil, Glaziou] 21071. "—Specimina authent., ⁺B = FNeg. 1414, C! K! M! P! S!

Characters as given in key to varieties.

In cerrado, both on red lateritic and on calcareous soils, 800-1100 m, locally common on the sources of rio S. Bartolomeu n. and e. of Lagoa Paranoá in centr. Distrito Federal, Brazil, s. just to Corumbá valley near Luizânia, Goiás, and collected once in upper Paranã valley in e.- centr. Goiás (s. of S. João da Aliança).—Fl. I, IV, VI, VIII-X, perhaps intermittently through the year.