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Mimosa scabrella Benth.

Fabaceae · Brazil Southeast, Brazil South +1

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Mimosa scabrella, photograph vinicius_s_domingues, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMimosa scabrella, photograph Fabrício Mil Homens Riella, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMimosa scabrella, photograph Fabrício Mil Homens Riella, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMimosa scabrella, photograph Fabrício Mil Homens Riella, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMimosa scabrella, photograph Paulo C. O. Cunha, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIFMimosa scabrella, photograph Paulo C. O. Cunha, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF 16 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-1.6°C
Record low -6.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
25°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,895mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
18–37DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Mimosa scabrella is a tree in the family Fabaceae. It is very fast-growing and it can reach a height of 15 m (49 ft) tall in only 3 years. Its trunk is about 0.1–0.5 m (3.9–19.7 in) in diameter. It has yellow flowers.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Mimosa scabrella", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Mimosa

Mimosa is a genus of about 600 species of herbs and shrubs, in the mimosoid clade of the legume family Fabaceae. Species are native to the Americas, from North Dakota to northern Argentina, and to eastern Africa as well as the Indian subcontinent and Indochina. The generic name is derived from the Greek word μῖμος (mimos), 'actor' or 'mime', and the feminine suffix -osa, 'resembling', suggesting its 'sensitive leaves' which seem to 'mimic conscious life'.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Mimosa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,333 mm of 1,824 mm) takes 8 months, September to March and July. Mean temperature moves 8.4 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: January and March to September.

Rain

1,824 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,333 mm of it September to March and July. Wettest month January at 203 mm, driest month August at 110 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,591 mm to 2,284 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,895 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,824 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -1.6 °C, the absolute minimum -6.4 °C, 311 frost nights in 44 years, 7.1 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 29.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 7.7 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 5.4 °C to 9.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 24.7 °C in January and February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -1.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 63 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +65 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Mimosa scabrella through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 25 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 7.7 °C; 1,824 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost29.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-6.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 18–37RH 63–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 47 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C25 / 21–2625 / 22–2624 / 21–2521 / 18–2318 / 15–2017 / 14–1917 / 14–1919 / 16–2119 / 16–2221 / 18–2323 / 20–2524 / 20–26
Night °C17 / 13–1817 / 14–1816 / 13–1714 / 11–1510 / 7–128 / 6–108 / 5–109 / 6–1110 / 7–1213 / 9–1414 / 11–1615 / 12–17
Rain mm203 / 168–353185 / 158–297135 / 111–241126 / 97–172134 / 99–163121 / 60–178137 / 69–180110 / 62–149165 / 121–195183 / 148–228161 / 133–223164 / 145–328
DLI36 / 32–3934 / 32–3630 / 29–3224 / 23–2720 / 19–2218 / 16–2119 / 17–2224 / 22–2726 / 24–2931 / 28–3336 / 33–3837 / 33–41
RH %68 / 64–7168 / 65–7068 / 65–7067 / 63–6966 / 63–6766 / 62–6765 / 61–6663 / 59–6565 / 62–6767 / 63–6966 / 62–6866 / 63–70
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 47 grid cells holding the 57 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2345:2588 (-27.275, -50.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -6.4 °C, 1st-percentile night -1.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 29.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 47 distinct grid cells holding 57 of the 57 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2345:2588 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -27.50_-50.625, lapse-corrected +65 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 985 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast · introduced: Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, New Guinea, Honduras, Jamaica, Venezuela, Colombia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-25.815, -49.689 · in the densest population, 224 records (66% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 341 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 57 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 308 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 14 km away. 18 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 284 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 341 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: vinicius_s_domingues, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Fabrício Mil Homens Riella, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Paulo C. O. Cunha, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Podocarpus lambertii Podocarpus lambertii Podocarpaceae Photo: CC BY, Rony Ristow Sinningia nivalis Gesneriaceae Peperomia trineura Piperaceae Maxillaria paranaensis Maxillaria paranaensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Paulo C. O. CunhaAcaena eupatoria Acaena eupatoria Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Diego BarbozaGunnera manicata Gunnera manicata Brazilian Giant rhubarb Photo: CC0, author not stated

Other Mimosa 27 in the reference

Mimosa aculeaticarpa Mimosa aculeaticarpa Catclaw mimosa Photo: CC BY, Aarón Misael Carpio DávilaMimosa albida Mimosa albida White mimosa Photo: CC0, author not statedMimosa benthamii Mimosa benthamii Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, José Javier Barrios FloresMimosa bimucronata Mimosa bimucronata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, angryphycoMimosa biuncifera Mimosa biuncifera Catclaw Mimosa Photo: CC BY, Jo RobertsMimosa borealis Mimosa borealis Fragrant mimosa Photo: CC BY, RachelMimosa caesalpiniifolia Mimosa caesalpiniifolia Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Paulo NogueiraMimosa candollei Mimosa candollei Fourvalve mimosa Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezMimosa diplotricha Mimosa diplotricha Giant sensitive plant Photo: CC BY, 祐Mimosa distachya Mimosa distachya Mexican mimosa Photo: CC BY, Abraham Sánchez RomeroMimosa dysocarpa Mimosa dysocarpa Velvetpod mimosa Photo: CC BY, John ThomlinsonMimosa farinosa Mimosa farinosa Fabaceae Photo: CC0, Hugo Hulsberg all 28 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Mimosa bracaatinga; Mimosa bracaatinga f. paucijuga; Mimosa bracaatinga var. aspericarpa; Mimosa scabrella var. aspericarpa; Mimosa scabrella var. scabrella and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
Benth.
Native to
Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast
Wild records
341 in range · 308 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 19 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 15 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -27.50_-50.625, lapse-corrected +65 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 69 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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