Mimosa ceratonia L.

Lomoplis ceratonia (L.) Raf. vSylva Tell. 118. 1838
Mimosa Ceratonia L. Sp. PI. 523. 1753. Acacia Ceratonia Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1091. 1806.
A glabrous vine, often 6 m. long, trailing or climbing, the angular branches and slender petioles armed with hooked prickles. Stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; pinnae 1-5 pairs, the rachis with small hooked prickles, the petiolules 6-10 mm. long; leaflets 3-5 pairs, obliquely obovate, inequilateral, thin, 3-nerved, 1-2.5 cm. long, rounded at the apex, paler beneath than above; heads in terminal racemes or narrow panicles, often numerous; peduncles prickly, 2 cm. long or less; stamens about 8 mm. long; legume straight or a little curved, 6 cm. long or less, 14-18 mm. wide, glabrous, shining.
Type locality: Tropical America. Distribution: Hispaniola to St. Vincent.

Perennial, Shrubs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Trunk or stems armed with thorns, spines or prickles, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Stems with hooked uncinate hairs or prickles, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves bipinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Flowers solitary in axils, or appearing solitary, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence panicles, Inflorescences globose heads, capitate or subcapitate, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals united, valvate, Petals white, Imperfect flowers present, dioecious or polygamodioecious, Fertile stamens 6-8, Stamens completely free, separate, Stamens long exserted, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit strongly curved, falcate, bent, or lunate, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit spiny, bur-like, with hooked bristles or prickles, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seed with elliptical line or depression, pleurogram, Seeds subquadrate, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

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