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Desmanthus leptophyllus

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:

  • North: Not Assessed
  • Central: Not Assessed
  • South: Not Assessed
Herbarium record of a dried stem with leaves and died legumes
University of South Florida Plant Atlas

Description

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.

Habitat

NA

Comments

Leaves are nyctinastic but not seismonastic sensitive.

Map of species distribution

Control Methods

  • Manual: NA
  • Chemical: NA
  • Biological: NA

Control Notes

NA

References

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.

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