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Mimosa semispinosa L., Sp. Pl. 1: 522 (1753)
Name Status. Non-Current Name
Name Type. Heterotypic synonym Source. D. Seigler (pers. comm., 2015)
Accepted Name. Mimosa distachya var. oligacantha (DC.) Barneby
Notes. Jarvis (2007: 677) notes: "The application of this name is uncertain. Barneby (in Mem. New York. Bot. Gard. 65: 777. 1991) treated it as a species incertae sedis and did not trace a type. He noted that if the name proved to apply to a true Mimosa, the armature and leaf-formula would fit M. distachya var. oligacantha (DC.) Barneby. A Clifford collection (BM), only rather doubtfully associated with the name, is not a Mimosa, but close to Acacia macracantha Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., a very large and widely distributed complex in the neotropics (Rico, pers. comm.). Mimosa semispinosa appears to be a candidate for rejection.".
SYNONYMY
Acacia semispinosa (L.) Willd. ex Steud. (1841) [Homotypic synonym]
TYPE INFORMATION
Type Citation. No type cited but provenance given as "Habitat in America."
