Mimosa pudica |
Mimosa monclovensis |
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sensitive plant, shameplant |
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Habit | Herbs or subshrubs, erect or decumbent, 0.3–1 m, armed. | Herbs or subshrubs, prostrate, 0.5–1.5 m, armed or unarmed. |
Stems | ribbed to striate, hispid or glabrous; prickles infrastipular, paired, also sparse along internodes, recurved. |
ribbed, glabrous; prickles sparse along ribs, recurved. |
Leaves | stipules lanceolate, 7–12 mm, glabrous to sparsely setose; petiole 1–4.5 cm; primary rachis 0–2.5 mm; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs, digitate; leaflets 15–25 pairs, blades obliquely linear-oblong, 5–10 × 2–2.5 mm, margins setose, 1 eccentric vein prominent abaxially, apex acute to mucronate, surfaces glabrous. |
stipules linear or filiform, 2–3.5 mm, glabrous; petiole (2–)2.5–3(–4) cm; primary rachis 2.5–3.5 cm; pinnae 1–3 pairs; leaflets 9–14 pairs, blades obliquely linear, 3.5–6 × 0.7–1(–1.4) mm, margins ciliate, 1 eccentric vein evident abaxially, apex acute, mucronulate, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 95–125-flowered, axillary, globose or subglobose capitula, solitary or fascicles of 2 or 3, also disposed in racemiform branches, 10–15 mm diam.; bracts linear to lanceolate, 1/2–2/3 corolla length. |
35–40-flowered, axillary, globose capitula, solitary, 10–12 mm diam.; bracts spatulate, 1/4–1/3 corolla length. |
Peduncles | 1–3 cm. |
1–5 cm. |
Pedicels | 0 mm. |
0.2 mm. |
Flowers | bisexual; calyx campanulate, lobes 4, 1/10 corolla length; corolla pink, glabrous, lobes 4, 1/4 corolla length; stamens 4, filaments distinct to base, lilac; ovary sessile to shortly stipitate, glabrous; style attenuate at apex; stigma poriform. |
bisexual and staminate; calyx campanulate, lobes 5, 1/5–1/4 corolla length; corolla pink, glabrous, lobes 5, 1/4–1/3 corolla length; stamens 10, filaments connate at bases, pink; ovary stipitate, glabrous; style attenuate at apex; stigma tubular. |
Legumes | sessile, straight, linear-oblong, 10–15 × 3–4 mm, constricted between seeds, valves with 2–5 segments, margin armed, long-setose, apex acuminate, faces glabrous. |
sessile, straight, linear-oblong, tetragonal, (45–)70–90(–100) × 4–4.5(–5) mm, not constricted between seeds, valves entire, 1–2.5 mm wide, margin 2.5–3.5 mm wide, prickly or unarmed, apex rostrate, rostrum 5–10 mm, faces glabrous. |
Seeds | 2–5, ochre, lenticular, 3–3.2 × 2.5–3 × 1–1.2 mm, testa smooth or porous, fissural line 90%. |
(6–)10–16, dark brown, oblong or subrhomboid, 5–6 × 2.5–3 × 1.5 mm, testa porous, fissural line 90%. |
Mimosa pudica |
Mimosa monclovensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Jan; fruiting Jul–Jan. | Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting May–Aug. |
Habitat | Pinelands, secondary vegetation, burned or cleared pinelands. | Dry sandy or gravelly places. |
Elevation | 0–40 m. (0–100 ft.) | 100–200 m. (300–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
FL; MD; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America; introduced also in tropical Asia, Africa, Australia]
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TX; Mexico (Coahuila) |
Discussion | Mimosa pudica is a pantropical species that has become established in Florida; C. F. Reed (1964) included M. pudica in the flora of the chrome and manganese ore piles at Canton, in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland; his record from Newport News, Virginia, cannot be verified, as that is an immature plant, probably corresponding to another species. Varieties of Mimosa pudica were distinguished by J. P. M. Brenan (1959) in tropical East Africa. R. C. Barneby (1991) proposed a modified key to varieties; however, they are not clearly delimited in American populations. Available specimens from the flora area cannot be determined at the infraspecific level. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Mimosa monclovensis occurs in southern Texas, southward from San Antonio, according to R. C. Barneby (1991, treated as M. quadrivalvis var. nelsonii). Mimosa subinermis (S. Watson) B. L. Turner, not M. subinermis Bentham (1841), is an illegitimate name that pertains to M. monclovensis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Mimosa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Mimosa |
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Synonyms | M. pudica var. unijuga | Schrankia subinermis, Leptoglottis nelsonii, L. subinermis, M. quadrivalvis var. nelsonii |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 518. (1753) | R. Grether & Marc. F. Simon: Phytoneuron 2018-39: 2. (2018) |
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