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Botanical Name: Mimosa pudica
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Family: Mimosaceae
Common Name: लाजाळू
Etymology - Genus: From the word for mimic, because the movement of the leaves
Etymology - Species: Shrinking, closing, modest
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Foreign
Location: Vetal Hill, Taljai Hill
Description: Small shrub with hairs on almost all parts.Digitately compound leaf with 4-5 pinnae and two straight stipuler spines. Soft hairs are observed on petiole and rachis. Shows a characteristics behaviour of clasping with touched.Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets.Small violet heads are observed at the leaf node. Soft hairs are observed on Peduncle.Flat curved pods with seeds are placed in distinct compartments.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Shrub
Stem Cross Section: Circular
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Root-Stem-Bark Description: Small shrub with hairs on almost all parts.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Spiny
Leaf Type: Digitate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Digitately compound leaf with 4-5 pinnae and two straight stipuler spines. Soft hairs are observed on petiole and rachis. Shows a characteristics behaviour of clasping with touched.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Rounded-Base
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
Bract:
Inflorescence Description: Small violet heads are observed at the leaf node. Soft hairs are observed on Peduncle.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
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Perianth Number of tepals: na
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Androecium Length of filament: equal
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Androecium Number of Stamens: 4
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Flat curved pods with seeds are placed in distinct compartments.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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