Chamaecrista mimosoides
Diagnostic 2
"Shrubs or herbs, young stem, rachis often appressed hairy. Leaves spirally arranged or distichous, paripinnate, 4-8 cm long; leaflets opposite 24-50 pairs, 3-6 x 1-2 mm, linear-oblong, oblique at base, margins ciliate; rachis with a sessile gland near the base; stipules linear 5-8 mm long. Flowers solitary or many-flowered, racemes, axillary or supra axillary; peduncle 1-2 cm long; bracts ovate, 3-6 mm long; bracteoles scarious; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 4-5 mm long. Petals 5, yellow, 5-8 mm long, obovate. Stamens 10, alternate short and long. Ovary linear, densely silky hairy, stigma truncate. Pods 3-6 x 0.4-0.5 cm. plano-compressed, thickened along sutures, elastically dehiscent; seeds c. 20, ellipsoid."
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- (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26333088
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- African Plants - a photo guide
- Atlas of Living Australia
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- World Flora Online
