Mimosaceae


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Related to Mimosaceae: Mimosa pudica, Fabaceae
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Noun1.Mimosaceae - family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touchMimosaceae - family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touch; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants
Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, family Leguminosae, legume family, Leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
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Estudio de magnitudes dendrometricas en funcion de la edad en Prosopis alba Griseb., algarrobo blanco, Mimosaceae. Revista Forestal Venezolana, Merida, v.
According to literature the Flora composition of park included 212 species of trees belongs to 50 families of plants of which 14 are major families containing 147 species that includes Poaceae, Fabaceae, Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Boraginaceae, Amaranthaceae, Aizoaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Mimosaceae and Solanaceae, Capparidaceae, Caryophyllaceae and Scrophulariaceae (Wariss et al., 2014).
Plant species include Plumeria rubra (Apocynaceae); Bursera simaruba (Burseraceae); Nopalea guatemalensis, Opuntia decumbens, Pilocereus leucocephalus, Stenocereus pruinosus, Stenocereus eichlami (Cactaceae); Acacia picachensis, Leucaena collinsii, Lysiloma divaricatum, Mimosa platycarpa (Mimosaceae); Swietenia humilis (Meliaceae); Ximenia americana (Olacaceae); Bonellia macrocarpa (Theophrastaceae); and Karwinskia calderonii (Rhamnaceae).
Comparative micromorphological studies on leaf epidermis in three species of Mimosa Linnaeus (Mimosaceae) from Assam, India.
berlandieri (Mimosaceae) and prospects for biological control of M.
Systematic and Ecological Investigations in the Genus Prosopis (Mimosaceae) Emphasizing the Natural Products of Chemistry.
En Hawai es una plaga importante del cafe (Coffea arabica L.: Rubiaceae) y Acacia koa Gray (Mimosaceae) (Burbano et al.
Mimosa tenuiflora (Wild.) Poiret (Mimosaceae) is a plant commonly found in the northeast Brazil, where is popularly known as "jurema-preta" (Oliveira, Chiavone-Filho, Rodrigues & Medeiros, 1999).