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Mimosa diplotricha

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Sauvalle

Common Names

• Dormilona (Costa Rica)
• Cola De Iguana
• Giant Sensitive Plant
• Rabo De Iguana
• Sierrilla
• Wagadrogadro Levu
• Zarza
• Zarza Zonza

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Jamaica
• Hispaniola
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Scandent or prostrate perennial hirsute densely spiny herb or subshrub with angled branches & recurved prickles. Bipinnate strigulose leaves,of 4-8 pairs of 20 pairs of leaflets, glabrous leaflets or pilose beneath to 5mm x 1mm. Axillary heads 10mm diameter, pale purple-pink flowers, glabrous calyx & corolla,minute calyx, corolla to 2mm long, lobes to 5mm long. Pubescent legume to 35mm x 6mm with prickly bristles on margins

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• NAF
• ILDIS
• FOPE