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Yellow Sensitive Plant
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Yellow Sensitive Plant
ative Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: Yellow Sensitive Plant • Tamil: Aticharanachani, Chumankai, Chupanke • Telugu: Chinna Nidra Kanti
Botanical name: Mimosa natans    Family: Mimosaceae (Touch-me-not family)
Synonyms: Mimosa prostrata, Desmanthus triquetrus, Mimosa triquetra

Yellow Sensitive Plant is a cousin of the Sensitive Water Plant, but grows on land. It is a perennial, prostrate, hairless herb, woody at base. Stems are slender, compressed, angled; leaves 2-6 cm long, abruptly 2-pinnate; sidestalks 1-3 pairs, 5 cm long, leaflets 10-20 pairs; stalkless, elliptic-oblong, 3-5 x 1-2 mm, hairless, fringed with hairs, rounded, base oblique. Flowers are yellow in solitary, axillary small heads. Pods are 1-2 cm, flat, beaked, oblong, compressed. Yellow Sensitive Plant is occasional among grasses. Yellow Sensitive Plant is found in Peninsular India. Flowering: May-November.

Identification credit: Satish Pardesi, Shrikant Ingalhalikar Photographed in Nagpur & Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh.

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