Characteristics
Dicots
Mimosa pigra L.
BLACK MIMOSA
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The name Mimosa pigra is conserved with a type from Mozambique to apply to the widespread and often weedy tropical species (Verdcourt 1989), since the name had been used in this sense for such a long time. Prior to the adoption of this nomenclatural conservation, Barney (1989) discovered that M. pigra was technically applied to a South American endemic (now known as Mimosa tweedieana) and thus Barneby (1991) had adopted Mimosa pellita for the widespread tropical species. Mimosa pellita (var. pellita) is typified by an element from Venezuela (Barneby 1991), which is synonymous with Mimosa pigra (var. pigra) as currently applied based on its conserved type.
Not Native
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Citation
MIMOSA PIGRA Linnaeus, Cent. Pl. 1: 13. 1755, nom. cons.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Gaza Distr.: Between Chibuto and Canicado by River Limpopo, s.d., Barbosa & Lemos 7999 (holotype: K; isotypes: COI, LISC, LMJ), typ. cons.
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