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Desmanthus virgatus
Desmanthus virgatus
(L.) Willd.
Common Name:
Virgate Mimosa
Family:
Fabaceae
Habit:
Desmanthus virgatus
grows as a loping vine/shrub to 2 meters in height laying on and growing through other vegetation. The bipinnately compound leaves are arranged alternately, to 15 cm long with pinnae in 2-7 pairs with a circular depressed gland between the lower 2 pinnae. The leaflets in 10-20 pairs, linear, with an acute leaf apex and entire margin.
The perfect/staminate or staminodal, incomplete or complete, actinomorphic flowers are in arranged in powder-puff ball heads. The calyx has 5 fused sepals forming a tube. The corolla has 5 greenish fused petals forming a tube twice the length of the calyx. There can be 10 white stamens or 10 staminodes that are 7-10 times the length of the corolla. The ovary is superior with a single locule. The fruit is a legume that turns brown at maturity, is elastically dehiscent.
Habitat:
Desmanthus virgatus
grows in Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formation –Woodlands/Shrublands (scrublands) and along the edges of Human Altered environments (abandoned fields, edges of yards).
Distribution:
Desmanthus virgatus
occurs in the Lucayan Archipelago, Temperate and Tropical Western hemisphere.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage:
Desmanthus virgatus
is not used medicinally in the Lucayan Archipelago.
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