Mimosaceae, the
mimosa family,
has 40
genera and about 2000
species. Mimosaceae are recognizable
by their binpinnately
compound leaves with oval leaflets. Their compound flowers usually appear in colorful hemispherical or spherical tufts.
Recently the "
legume family"
Leguminosae was broken
into three families:
Mimosaceae,
Caesalpinaceae,
and
Fabaceae (aka
Papilionaceae).
You will frequently see Mimosaceae species represented under the Leguminosae
or Fabaceae.
Superkingdom Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Division Magnoliophyta (formerly Phylum Angiospermae)
Class Magnoliopsida (formerly Class Dicotyledonae)
Subclass Rosidae
(former Family Leguminosae)
Family
Mimosaceae (Former subfamily Mimosoideae)
-
Tribe Acacieae1:
- Tribe Ingeae:
- Tribe Mimozygantheae
- Tribe Mimoseae
- Tribe Parkieae
- Parkia
- P. javanica (Petai)
- P. nitida
- P. pendula
- P. reticulata
- P. roxburghii
- P. timoriana
- P. ulei
- P. velutina
- Pentaclethra
- P. macroloba
- P. macrophylla
1Acacia is frequently classified in the
Ingeae.
Sources:
Mimosaceae page of Dr. Gerald Carr, Professor of Botany, University
of Hawaii
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/mimos.htm
L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The Families of Flowering
Plants: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval.
Version: 14th December 2000.
at http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/
University of Connecticut Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Conservatory
http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/
University of Western Australia Department of Botany
http://www.botany.uwa.edu.au/systematics/