Compilation
Mimosa latronum

Shrub 1.3–3.6 m. high, normally flat-crowned, obconical and branching from base, very rarely taller (to 10 m.) but still with fastigiate branching from base. Young branchlets grey-brown to brown or blackish-purple, glabrous. Stipules spinescent, up to 9.5 cm. long, some normally with their lower part enlarged and ovoid or fusiform, not or only slightly constricted at base; no prickles below the stipules. Leaves: rhachis eglandular between the 2–6 pairs of pinnae; often a conspicuous gland on the petiole; leaflets 5–11 pairs, 2–6 mm. long, 0.75–1.8 mm. wide, subglabrous or inconspicuously ciliate, rounded to subacute or acute at apex, lateral nerves invisible. Flowers cream, sessile, in spikes 1–4.5 cm. long on peduncles 0.5–1 cm. long. Calyx 0.3–1 mm. long. Corolla 2–2.5 mm. long, glabrous, with 4 lobes 0.5–0.7 mm. long. Stamen-filaments about 5 mm. long; anthers 0.1–0.15 mm. across, with a caducous gland. Pods brown, dehiscent, glabrous or slightly puberulous especially near base and along sutures, oblong, subreniform or ± shortly falcate, (2.5–)3–6 cm. long, (1.2–)1.5–2.5 cm. wide. Seeds ± obovate-compressed, 5 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide; central areole small, 2 × 1.5 mm.