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Mimosa asperata

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Mimosa asperata L. [family MIMOSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by 102946, 1910
Related name
  • Mimosa tenuiflora
  • Mimosa berlandieri
  • Mimosa polyacantha
  • Mimosa pigra
  • Mimosa habbas
  • Acacia asperata
  • Mimosa asperata
Common name
  • morõ diohõ (JB) nor (SENEGAL, MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bursa (AS) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ga-dyàn-dyàn-dye = keep away from the fingers (FG&G) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • fura kana (JB; K&A) gavsa (JB) sasã (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • sensitive du Sénégal (Kerharo & Adam); mimosa rébarbatif (Berhaut)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • gadiãdii (JB) gaj˚âji (AS; K&A) gańaj˚i (K&A) (SENEGAL, TUKULOR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for MIMOSA asperata Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
MIMOSA asperata Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 1842, 400.
MIMOSA polyacantha Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], DC. Prod. ii. 428;
MIMOSA procumbens Schum. et Thonn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Pl. Guin. 324;
Ergett el Krone Bruce [family ], Abyss. vii. t. 7.
Information
A much branched prickly and coarsely setulose-pubescent hirsute or strigillose shrub, often attaining several feet. Prickles sharply pointed, straight, or reflexed from a vertically dilated base. Leaves strigose hispid or pilose, usually with slender prickles between the subopposite pinnæ; pinnæ usually from 7–16 pairs; leaflets crowded, usually 25–40-jugate, linear, more or less acute, strigose strigose-ciliate or glabrate, usually from 1 1/2–4 lines long. Peduncles axillary, at length stout, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, solitary or towards the ends of the branches 2 or 3 from each axil. Capitula whitish rose or purple. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx minute, irregularly laciniate with setaceous teeth. Legume oblong or linear-oblong, straight or falcate, compressed, densely strigose-hirsute, apex rounded usually tipped with the remains of the style; valves breaking up into numerous narrow transverse articles, which separate from the slender sutural replum; 1 1/2–3 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, on a stipes of 1–3 lines or sessile.
Range
Very abundant and widely spread through Tropical Africa.
Notes
(For further synonymy see Bentham l. c.) “South Central” is the only division of the Continent unrepresented by specimens in the Kew Herbarium. It affects watery places. In Angola Dr. Welwitsch describes it as forming dense thickets penetrable only by beasts of prey.

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