Common Name: slenderleaf bundleflower
Family: Fabaceae
Common Synonyms: Desmanthus latus, Desmanthus insularis
USDA Hardiness Zone: 9a-11b
Growth Habit: Shrub
Origin: Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean
FISC Category: -
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: Unknown, but herbarium specimens date back to the 1960s
IFAS Assessment:
Perennial shrub with a woody taproot. Petiole (3-)5-16 mm long; leaves are twice pinnately compound with 4-8 pairs of pinnae per leaf. The bases of pinnea, leaflets and petioles have well-developed pulvinae. Stipules are bristle-like. Inflorescences are heads or condensed spikes with usually white flowers. Legume fruits are straight or falcate.
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Leaves are nyctinastic but not seismonastic sensitive.
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Luckow, Melis. 1993. Monograph of Desmanthus (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae). Systematic Botany Monographs Vol. 38: 1-166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25027822
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2021. Desmanthus leptophyllus Kunth in GBIF Secretariat. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 26 April 2022.
Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. 2022. Atlas of Florida Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/). [S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), USF Water Institute.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.