Mimosa skinneri var. skinneri

  • Title

    Mimosa skinneri var. skinneri

  • Author(s)

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Scientific Name

    Mimosa skinneri var. skinneri

  • Description

    475d. Mimosa skinneri Bentham var. skinneri. M. skinneri Bentham, 1846, l.c., sens. str.— "Cuesta of Leone, Guatemala, Skinner."— Holotypus, K (hb. Hook.)!; isotypus, K (hb. Benth.)!

    M. pittieri M. Micheli, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 30(1): 294. 1891.—"[Costa Rica.] Près du Río Jesús María a Puntarenas (Pitt[ier] n. 502)."—Holotypus, collected 17.IX.1888, G!; isotypus, M!

    M. tetraneura T. S. Brandegee, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6(4): 52. 1914.—"[Mexico, Chiapas:] Sierra de Tonala. .. [C. A. Purpus] No. 6626."—Holotypus, collected IX. 1913, UC!; isotypi, F! = F Neg. 54794, NY!

    M. longicoma Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23(3): 152. 1928. —"[Mexico.] Jalisco, Chiapas, September, 1923, [C. A.] Purpus 9069.'"—Holotypus, NY!

    M. germana Standley & L. O. Williams, Ceiba 1: 240. 1951.—"Costa Rica: Naranjo, Prov. Alajuela, alt. 1000 m, Die. 28, 1949, [Jorge] León 2011."—Holotypus, US 2215907!

    Characters as given in key to varieties; armed at some or at all nodes; pods densely puberulent facially and setose overall (M. longicoma), simply setose overall (Matuda 2152, NY), puberulent facially but setose only on replum (Brenes 14331, NY), glabrous facially but setose on replum (M. tetraneura), or wholly glabrous (Thorne 20522, NY).

    On riverbanks, in sandy stream beds, in disturbed brush-woodlands, and in open pine forest, mostly at middle elevations on the Pacific slope, attaining 1350 m in Guatemala, discontinuously dispersed through Central America from n.-w. and centr. Chiapas, Mexico to centr. Costa Rica (Puntarenas, San José and Alajuela); apparently isolated in lowland Pacific Mexico (n.-e. of Puga, Nayarit, Feddema 902, MICH!).—Fl. VIII-I. Map 66.