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Fabaceae

 16-Mimosa pucida, sensitive plant

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The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) have special structures (pulvinus) at the bases of petioles and leaflets that allow the leaf parts to close up when touched (arrow).
Photo by K. R. Robertson at the University of Massachusetts conservatory.
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