About South-Indian Mimosa
Mimosa rubicaulis is a shrub belonging to the family Fabaceae and subfamily Mimosoideae. It is bipinnately compound, each leaf having 8–12 pairs of pinnae, each with 16–20 pairs of pinnules, unlike Mimosa pudica which has at most two prickly pairs of leaflets. It is found across India.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Mimosa rubicaulis
- Genus
- Mimosa
- Family
- MIMOSACEAE
- Habit
- Shrub
- Distribution
- India, Nepal
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-November
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Nepali
- अररी काँडा
- Bengali
- বড় লজ্জাবতী, কুচিকাঁটা
- Tamil
- Ingai, igai, ikkagodi
- Kannada
- ರಾಸನೆ Raasane, ರಾಸ್ನೆ Rasne, ಉರಿಸೀಗೆ Urisige
- Malayalam
- kattusinikka, katcheenikoi
- Marathi
- arai
Botanical family
Mimosaceae
Mimosa/Acacia family
South-Indian Mimosa belongs to the Mimosaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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