Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Mimosopsis minutifolia (Rob. & Greenm.) Britton & Rose
Mimosa minutifolia Rob. & Greenm. Am. Journ. Sci. III. 50: 150. 1895.
A shrub, armed with straight, stipular, paired prickles 4 mm. long, and solitary, curved ones. Petioles about 2 mm. long; pinnae 15-22 pairs; rachis minutely glandular; leaflets 10-20 pairs, elliptic, 1 mm. long, glabrous above, pruinose beneath, ciliate; peduncles 1 cm. long, pubescent; legume oblong, 2.5-3 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, long-apiculate, the valves and margin prickly, or setose.
Type locality: Rio Blanco, Jalisco. Distribution; Jalisco.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
