Mimosa

Margoth Atahuachi, M. Leontien Van Der Bent, John R. I. Wood, Gwilym P. Lewis & Colin E. Hughes, 2016, Bolivian Mimosa (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae): three new species and a species checklist, Phytotaxa 260 (3), pp. 201-222 : 219

46. ** Mimosa suberosa Atahuachi & C.E. Hughes

Described based on a handful of collections all from the last decade and all from the southern Serranía de Huanchaca in very open fire-prone cerrado with low shrubs scattered in rough grassland. Guillén et al. 4157 (K!, LPB, USZ!); Mostacedo 1766 (MO, NY, USZ!); T.J. Killeen et al. 7459 (MO, USZ!); J.R.I. Wood et al. 16560 (holotype K!; isotypes HSB, LPB). It is locally abundant in the area around Campamento Huanchaca 2 and is one of three Serranía de Huanchaca endemics along with M. huanchacae and M. rastrera . When originally described, M. suberosa was thought to be endemic to Bolivia, but it has recently been collected also from the SE flanks of the Serranía de Huanchaca (L. Borges 782 UB, pers. comm.), where known as the Serra do Ricardo Franco in Brazil. See Atahuachi and Hughes (2006).