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

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.

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.