Taxon: Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• jurema   (Source: L Brasil Online ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jurema-preta   (Source: L Brasil Online ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tepescohuite   (Source: Rev Biol Trop 48:939) – Spanish (Mexico)
  
• cabrera   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide van Wyk, pers. comm.)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Rev Biol Trop 48:939. 2000; CRC MedHerbs ed2, as M. hostilis)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Oaxaca
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela - Aragua, Cojedes, Guarico, Lara, Zulia
  Brazil: Brazil - Bahia, Ceara, Minas Gerais [n.], Paraiba, Pernambuco, Piaui [s.e.], Rio Grande do Norte, Sao Paulo [e.?]
  Western South America: Colombia - Guajira

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Barneby, R. C. 1991. Sensitivae censitae: a description of the genus Mimosa Linnaeus (Mimosaceae) in the New World. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 65:135.
• Britton, N. L. & J. N. Rose. 1928. Mimosaceae. In: Britton, N. L. et al., eds. ser. 1; C. T. Rogerson, ed. ser. 2, North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 23(3):159.
• Camargo-Ricalde, S. L. 2000. Description, distribution, anatomy, chemical composition and uses of Mimosa tenuiflora (Fabaceae-Mimosoideae) in Mexico. Revista Biol. Trop. 48:939–954.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Grether, R. 1984. Notes on the genus Mimosa in Mesoamerica. Bull. Groupe Int. Étude Mimosoideae 12:44.
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Pittier, H. F. et al. 1945–1947. Catálogo de la flora venezolana.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rico, L. & T. Pennington. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Neotropical Mimosoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Williams, L. O. 1981. The useful plants of Central America. Ceiba 24:179.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mimosa tenuiflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mimosa tenuiflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mimosa tenuiflora.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Acacia tenuiflora Willd. (basionym)
  
• (=) Mimosa cabrera H. Karst.
  
• (=) Mimosa hostilis (Mart.) Benth.
  

Check other web resources for Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN nodulation data

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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