Mimosaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls regular, hypogynous or nearly so, mostly perfect and 5-merous; sep commonly united to form a tube with valvate lobes, or sometimes much-reduced; pet distinct or often connate below to form a tube, valvate; stamens as many or more often twice as many as the pet, or numerous, the anthers small, the filaments distinct or connate below, commonly colored and exserted to form the most conspicuous part of the infl; pistil 1, simple; fr a legume; seed-coat commonly with a horseshoe-shaped groove on the flat surface near the margin; embryo large, generally straight; endosperm in most genera wanting or very scanty; herbs or more often woody plants with alternate, stipulate, usually bipinnately compound lvs and numerous small fls in heads, spikes, or dense racemes. 50–60/3000.
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Common Names
The mimosa family