Mimosa invisa Colla

Mimosa invisa Mart. Flora 20: Beibl. 2: 121. 1837
Sckrankia brachycarpa Benth. Journ. Bot. Hook. 2: 130. 1840. Mimosa diplotricha C. Wright; Sauvalle. Anales Acad. Habana 5: 405. 1869. Morongia pilosa Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 105. 1916. Schrankia pilosa Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. 59: 11. 1919.
A woody clambering vine, 1-2 m. long, the branches angled, with numerous, short reflexcd prickles, pilose or glabrous. Pinnae 4-8 pairs; petiole and rachis more or less prickly; leaflets many pairs, oblong-linear, 3-5 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, glabrous on both sides, ciliate; peduncles about 1 cm. long, or shorter; flowers in dense heads; calyx and corolla glabrous; stamens 8, twice as many as the corolla-lobes, purplish; legume linear-oblong, 1-2.5 cm. long, 5—6 mm. wide, short-setose on the valves and margin, more or less pubescent, sessile, 3-5jointed.
Type locality: Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.
Distribution: Jamaica; Cuba; Hispaniola; Trinidad; Tepic and Veracruz to Panama, Colombia and Brazil.