Chamaecrista flexuosa |
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Texas sensitive pea |
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Variety | flexuosa tends to have larger leaves (4–14 cm) with more leaflet pairs (usually 25–65, rarely as few as 20). |
Chamaecrista flexuosa |
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Distribution |
Mexico; Central America; South America; Texas; West Indies
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade) > Chamaecrista |
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Synonyms | Cassia flexuosa |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Greene: Pittonia 4: 27. (1899) |
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