Mimosa bimucronata (Candolle 1825: 469) Kuntze (1891: 198)

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 265

41. Mimosa bimucronata (Candolle 1825: 469) Kuntze (1891: 198) . ( Fig. 7C )

Distribution: It occurs in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay ( Barneby 1991); in Brazil it occurs in the South, Southeast, Central-west and Northeast regions ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs in all areas.

Reproductive period: In ParNa Iguaçu it was found in flower in April and in fruit from April to June.

Diagnostic characteristics: Trees with bipinnate leaves lacking nectaries, easily recognized by their flowers with whitish stamens, glabrous, craspedium fruit that are nigrescent when mature.

Conservation: Native-NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Area 1, Céu Azul , 19 June 2015, (fr.), M.G. Caxambu 6591 ( EVB, HCF) ; Area 2, Capanema , 03 April 2019, (fr.), C.R. Rauber et al. 363 ( UNOP) ; Area 3, Foz do Iguaçu , 13 February 2017, (fl.), L.C.P. Lima 881 ( EVB) .

Figures

FIGURE 7. A: Machaerium paraguariense, branch; B: Machaerium stipitatum, branch with fruit; C: Mimosa bimucronata, branch with fruit; D: Mimosa candollei, fruit; E: Mimosa prionopus, fruit; F: Mucuna urens, fruit; G: Muellera campestris, branch with inflorescence; H: Myrocarpus frondosus, branch with inflorescence; I: Nissolia brasiliensis, branch with flower and fruit; J: Peltophorum dubium, fruit.