Taxon: Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

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:

AL*, MA*, NC*.

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

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama
  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

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Mayotte; Reunion
  Africa [tropical]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  North Indian Ocean: British Indian Ocean Terr - Diego Garcia
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [n.]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu; Wallis and Futuna Islands

• also cultivated

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].
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 11:197.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname. [= M. invisa Mart.].
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mimosa diplotricha.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mimosa diplotricha.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources for Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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:

• 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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