Comprehensive Description
(
Anglèis
)
fornì da North American Flora
Mimosa acapulcensis B. L. Robinson, Bot. Gaz. 28: 135. 1899
A shrub, 1.5-3 m. high, the twigs glabrous, prickly. Pinnae 1 pair; leaflets 3, or, if 4, the lower inner one much reduced, oblong, 3-10 cm. long, glabrous and glaucous, acute, with cartilaginous margins; peduncles 2-3.5 cm. long; flowers in dense heads, rose-colored; stamens as many as the corolla-lobes; legume 2.5-4 cm. long, glabrous, unarmed, long-stipitate, 3-4jointed, constricted between the joints.
Type locality: Acapulco. Guerrero. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- sitassion bibliogràfica
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
