Taxon: Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS (as Mimosa invisa).

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL(as Mimosa invisa)*, HI(as Mimosa invisa)*°, MA*, MA(as Mimosa invisa)*, NC*, NC(as Mimosa invisa)*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Mimosa diplotricha var. diplotricha (no accessions)
• Mimosa diplotricha var. odibilis (no accessions)

Common names:

• giant sensitive-plant   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• dormideira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• juquirí-rasteiro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• malícia-de-mulher   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• sensitiva   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; soil improver   (fide Pl Res SEAs 11:197. 1997)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Mem NYBG 65:201. 1991)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Noxweed Aust, as M. invisa; L NWeeds Hawaii as M. invisa)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatan; Panama
  Caribbean: Cuba; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Amazonas, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Parana, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru - Huanuco
  Southern South America: Paraguay

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• naturalized in tropical Africa, n. Australia, & Oceania

References:

• Barneby, R. C. 1987. A note on Mimosa invisa C. Martius ex Colla and M. invisa C. Martius (Mimosaceae). Brittonia 39:50.
• Barneby, R. C. 1991. Sensitivae censitae: a description of the genus Mimosa Linnaeus (Mimosaceae) in the New World. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 65:200.
• Bässler, M. 1985. Die Gattung Mimosa (Leguminosae - Mimosoideae) in Cuba. Feddes Repert. 96:602. [= M. invisa Mart. ex Colla].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname. (F Suriname) [= M. invisa Mart.].
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mimosa diplotricha.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mimosa diplotricha. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Mimosa invisa Mart.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Mimosa invisa var. inermis (Adelb.) Gilli [= Mimosa diplotricha var. diplotricha]
  
• Mimosa invisa f. invisa Adelb. [= Mimosa diplotricha var. diplotricha]
  

Check other databases for Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?313380 (09 February 2010)

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