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Mimosa candollei

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

R. Grether

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bahia
• Piauí - Brazil
• Bolivia
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Hispaniola
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Paraguay
• Venezuela
• Windward islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Oct
• Dec

Herbaceous vine, prostrate or scandent with hooked spines on stems, glabrous or thinly pubescent branches, climber or strangler, tetragonal stem. Bipinnate leaves to 50mm long, 2-3 pairs of 10-20 pairs of leaflets to 12mm x 2.5mm. Pink or red flowers, glabrous corolla 2mm long with stamens to 4mm. Beaked legume to 100mm long x 4mm not jointed, with longitudinal ridges of prickles.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• ILDIS
• FCP
• FB
• APDC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley