Mimosa acantholoba var. platycarpa

Title

Mimosa acantholoba var. platycarpa

Author(s)

Rupert C. Barneby

Scientific Name

Mimosa acantholoba var. platycarpa (Benth.) Barneby

Description

50a. Mimosa acantholoba (Willdenow) Poiret var. platycarpa  (Bentham) Barneby, stat. nov. M. platycarpa Bentham. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 417. 1875.—"Guatemala, Skinner ."—Holotypus, K! = NY Neg. s.n.—Neomimosa platycarpa (Bentham) Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23(3): 173. 1928.

Senegalia (?) cockerellae Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 111. 1928.—"Gualán [depto. Zacapa], Guatemala, 1912, Wilmatte P. Cockerell 61."—Holotypus (an unarmed branch in fl), NY\—Acacia cockerellae (Britton & Rose) Lundell, Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 4: 7. 1940.—Not accounted for by Standley & Steyermark, 1946.

In thorn-forest, sometimes on serpentine, 200-800 m, local on the headwaters of río Motagua in s. Guatemala. Map 7.