In the genus Tectaria, about 200 species are cited which are distributed in southwest Asia and the Pacific islands; for the Neotropics there are 25-30 species, especially in South America. The systematics of the genus Tectaria has been built mainly under a morphological approach. However, the high phenotypic plasticity of...
Mimosa L. comprises ca. 540 species in the world; in Mexico, 105 species (ca. 20% of the genus) are found; according to previous registers to this thesis, the most diverse states in species of Mimosa have been: Oaxaca (46), Chiapas (35), and Veracruz (26). Diverse taxonomic studies of Mimosa have...