Wild Flowering Plants
| Fabaceae-Mimosoideae family Desmanthus virgatus (Linnaeus) Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4(2): 1047. 1806. Bas.: Mimosa virgata Linnaeus (1753). Indigenous low or prostrate common herb of coastal rocky areas. Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Antigua, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, Greater Antilles, Tobago, Trinidad, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. This species can be confused with Desmanthus pernambucanus and Desmanthus leptophyllus D. virgatus is prostrate or has ascending branches (sometimes long) reaching a height of 0.7m.and is not woody. D. pernambucanus and D. leptophyllus are much taller with long stems woody at the base. D. pernambucanus has 4 pairs of leaflets/leaf or less and pubescent stipules. D. leptophyllus has 8 pairs of leaflets or less/leaf and glabrous stipules. |