Fabaceae
Mimosa

Mimosa mossambicensis Brenan

First published in Kew Bull. 10: 189 (1955)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mozambique. It is a climbing shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Leguminosae, J.P.M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 3:1. 1970

Morphology General Habit
Climber; stems slender, ± appressed-puberulous, slowly glabrescent, sparsely to densely armed with downwardly hooked prickles up to 2·5 mm. long.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves with petiole 0·2-0·6 cm. long, prickly; rhachis 8-19 cm. long, prickly; pinnae 10-15 pairs; leaflets 8-13 pairs, 3-6 x 1-2 mm., narrowly oblong, with a very few appressed hairs on both surfaces towards the base, otherwise glabrous, venation pinnate, ± visible beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers sweetly scented, in subglobose heads c. 1 cm. in diam., on puberulous very sparsely prickly peduncles c. 2 cm. long, 1-3 together from axils, not conspicuously aggregated into a panicle.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx c. 0·5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla c. 2-3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens c. 8.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 7-9 x 1·2-6 cm., ± curved, with recurved prickles, sometimes sparse, on margins only.
[FZ]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone ; woodland.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0