subfamily Mimosoideae

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subfamily Mimosoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae Mimosoideae rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, family Leguminosae, legume family, Leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae genus Mimosa - genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement genus Acacia - large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa Adenanthera, genus Adenanthera - small genus of trees of tropical Asia and Pacific areas genus Albizia, genus Albizzia - large genus of unarmed trees and shrubs of Old World tropics Anadenanthera, genus Anadenanthera - 2 species of tropical American shrubs or trees genus Calliandra - genus of pinnate-leaved shrubs and small trees of tropical and subtropical North and South America and India and West Africa Enterolobium, genus Enterolobium - small genus of tropical American timber trees closely allied to genus Albizia genus Inga - genus of tropical trees or shrubs genus Leucaena, Leucaena - small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia genus Lysiloma, Lysiloma - small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods genus Parkia, Parkia - genus of tropical Old World trees: nitta trees genus Piptadenia, Piptadenia - tropical American trees and shrubs; often placed in other genera genus Pithecellobium, genus Pithecolobium, Pithecellobium, Pithecolobium - thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia genus Prosopis, Prosopis - genus of tropical or subtropical branching shrubs or trees: mesquite