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Mimosa prostrata

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Identification
Mimosa dormiens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by H. Harms, Mimosa prostrata Regel [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
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Flora

Entry for NEPTUNIA oleracea Lour. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
NEPTUNIA oleracea Lour. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Fl. Coch.: 654 (1790); Oliv., F.T.A. 2: 334 (1871); Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 30: 383 (1875); Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 267 (1956); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 496 (1958). Type: Cochinchina, Loureiro (BM,? holo.!)
Mimosa prostrata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], Encycl. 1: 10 (1783), excl. β M. natans L.f., nom. illegit. Types: Niti-todda-vaddi Rheede Hort. Malabar. 9: 35, t. 20 (1689) (syn.!); Mimosa orientalis non spinosa. .. Pluk., Almagest. Bot.: 252, t. 307, fig. 4 (1696) (syn.!)
Neptunia prostrata (Lam.) Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 1: 356 (1883); L.T.A.: 809 (1930); Bogdan in Nature in E. Afr., No. 4: 11 (1947); U.O.P.Z.: 379, fig. (1949); Gilb. & Bout. in F.C.B. 3: 198 (1952)
Information
Aquatic herb with creeping stems usually floating, swollen, and rooting especially at nodes, glabrous or rarely puberulous when young. Leaves very sensitive; stipules obliquely ovate, 5–9 mm. long, 3–5 mm. wide, thin; petiole 2.5–9 cm. long; rhachis 1.1–4.2(–6.5) cm. long; pinnae 2–4 pairs; leaflets 7–22 pairs, oblong, 5–20 mm. long, 1.5–4 mm. wide, basal ones smaller, glabrous or with a few hairs on margins. Flowers yellow, in heads 1.5–2.5 cm. long; peduncles 6.5–23(–30) cm. long. Calyx 1–3 mm. long. Corolla about 3–4 mm. long. Stamens 10; anthers eglandular at apex, even in bud; staminodes up to 17–21 mm. long. Pods bent at an angle to the short basal stipe, shortly oblong, 1.3–2.7(–3.8) cm. long, 1–1.2 cm. wide. Seeds 5–5.5 mm, long and 3–3.5 mm, wide. Fig. 12.
Range
DISTR. K1, 7; T5, 6; P tropics of Old and New Worlds
Altitude range
10–1220 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Kolbio, Ritchie in C.M. 1910!;KENYA Lamu District Kiunga, 23 Oct. 1947, Mrs. J. Adamson 434 in Bally 6133!TANGANYIKA Dodoma District Ndachi, May 1938, Savile 41!TANGANYIKA “Rufiji,” 3 Feb. 1931, Musk 40!TANGANYIKA Mafia Is., Kiwawe, 1 Sept. 1937, Greenway 5202!ZANZIBAR Pemba, Vitongoge, 15 Feb. 1929. Greenway 1455!

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