Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Mimosa > Mimosa tenuifloraMimosa tenuiflora (Calumbi; Tepescohuite; Jurema Preta; Jurema; Cuji Cabrera; Carbonal; Cabrera)Synonyms: Acacia hostilis; Acacia jurema; Acacia tenuiflora (homotypic); Mimosa apodocarpa var. hostilis; Mimosa cabrera; Mimosa hostilis; Mimosa limana; Mimosa maracasensis; Mimosa nigra Mimosa tenuiflora, syn. Mimosa hostilis (Jurema Preta, Calumbi (Brazil), Tepezcohuite (México), Carbonal, Cabrera ) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas), and the following countries: El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. It is most often found in lower altitudes, but it can be found as high as 1,000 m (3,300 ft). |
| Leaf Type [1] | Evergreen | | Specific Gravity [2] | 1.12 | | Structure [1] | Tree |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 2Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367 ♦ 3Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deuterocopinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera), C. Gielis, Zool. Med. Leiden 80 (2006) ♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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