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Species
Mimosa pudica L. var. unijuga (Duch. and Walp.) Griseb
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NCBI
EOL Text
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Flower
In axillary heads; pink. Flowering from November-March.
Fruit
A flat pod, slightly undulate, jointed, bristly along margin, horned; seeds 2-5, ovoid, compressed. Fruiting from January-May.
Field tips
Stem well branched with highly sensitive leaves. Prickles short, curved.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate-distichous
Leaf Type
Bipinnate
Leaf Shape
Elliptic-oblong
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Truncate-obtuse
Leaf Margin
Entire-ciliate
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Red List Criteria
Year Assessed
Assessor/s
Reviewer/s
Contributor/s
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Perennial, Shrubs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems prostrate, trailing, or mat forming, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems 1-2 m tall, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Trunk or stems armed with thorns, spines or prickles, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Stems with hooked uncinate hairs or prickles, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves bipinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 10- many, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Flowers solitary in axils, or appearing solitary, Flowers in axillary clusters or few-floweredracemes, 2-6 flowers, Inflorescences globose heads, capitate or subcapitate, Inflorescence axillary, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals united, valvate, Petals white, Imperfect flowers present, dioecious or polygamodioecious, Stamens 9-10, Stamens completely free, separate, Stamens long exserted, Filaments glabrous, Filaments pink or red, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit a loment, jointed, separating into articles, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit spiny, bur-like, with hooked bristles or prickles, Fruit beaked, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seed with elliptical line or depression, pleurogram, Seeds subquadrate, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.
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Rights holder/Author | Compiled from several sources by Dr. David Bogler, Missouri Botanical Garden in collaboration with the USDA NRCS NPDC |
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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A low spreading shrub, branches hairy and prickly, hairs glandular. Leaf very sensitive; stipulate, stipules linear-lanceolate, c. 7-8 mm long; rachis c. 2.5 cm long, grooved and prickly, pinnae 1-2 pairs, c. 2.5-5 cm long, sessile, situated at the end of the rachis; leaflets 12-20 pairs, sessile, 6-8 mm long, c. 5-6 mm broad coriaceous, linear-acute, glabrous above, hairy on the margin and below. Flowers in peduncled more or less globose heads, yellow, peduncle 2-2.5 cm long; densely hairy, head c. 6-8 mm in diameter solitary or in axillary pairs along the branches, bracts small, linear-acute. Calyx minute. Corolla pink c. 2-3 mm long, divided into 4 obtuse lobes. Stamens 4, much exserted. Fruit c. 12-18 mm long, c. 2-4 mm broad, flat, recurved, having 3-5 or 1 seeded parts, glabrous, light brown; joints separating from the persistent, spinous sutures.
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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Prostrate or straggling annual or perennial herb up to c. 1 m high. Stems sometimes woody near the base, more or less densely covered in rough hairs, sparsely armed with short, prickles. Leaves sensitive, twice compound with (1-)2 pairs of pinnae; rhachis very short, making the leaf appearing palmately divided. Flowers in ovoid-globose heads, c. 1.3 × 1 cm, in the upper leaf axils, lilac or pink. Pods in clusters, 1-2 cm long, densely prickly or bristly on the margins only.
200-1200 m
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Population
Population Trend
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Roots and leaves are used in traditional medicine.
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Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33177 |