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South Indian Mimosa

Mimosa rubicaulis

South Indian Mimosa
Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Indian Subcontinent to Myanmar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Mimosa rubicaulis is a shrub belonging to the family Fabaceae and subfamily Mimosoideae. It is bipinnately compound, each leaf having 8–12 pairs of pinnae, each with 16–20 pairs of pinnules, unlike Mimosa pudica which has at most two prickly pairs of leaflets. It is found across India.

Other Mimosa plants

Catclaw mimosa · Mimosa andina · Fragrant mimosa · Mimosa caesalpiniifolia · Giant false sensitive plant · Mimosa disperma · Mimosa hamata · Creeping Sensitive Plant · Mimosa loxensis · Sensitivebriar · Mimosa nothacacia · Nuttall's sensitive-briar

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mimosa rubicaulis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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