Mimosa candolleiR.Grether

WFO wfo-0000210516 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Mimosa candollei, photographed by Breno Figueiredo
fig. a Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-12 / obs. 142882759
Mimosa candollei, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. b Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92741603
Mimosa candollei, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. c Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92741211
Mimosa candollei, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. d Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89497787
Mimosa candollei, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. e Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100417245
Mimosa candollei, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. f Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5834182
Mimosa candollei, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. g Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99359425
Mimosa candollei, photographed by Paulo Nogueira
fig. h Paulo Nogueira, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140619071

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
00932219
Filed as
Mimosa candollei R.Grether
Det. by
M. Flores-Cruz 2002-06-01
Collected
H. S. Irwin 1966-03-19
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Mimosa candollei is native: Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruVenezuela Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Mimosa candollei, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 76 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.7 °C 22.5 °C 24.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.2 °C 30.4 °C 35.9 °C
Annual rainfall 845 mm 1,703 mm 3,445 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 12 mm 105 mm 240 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 76 research-grade observations of Mimosa candollei that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Leptoglottis leptocarpa (DC.) Standl.
  • Mimosa quadrivalvis var. leptocarpa (DC.) Barneby
  • Schrankia argentinensis Burkart
  • Schrankia leptocarpa DC.
  • Schrankia trijuga Ram.Goyena

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.