Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Mimosa quadrivalvis Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 522. 1753 . "Habitat in Vera Cruce." RCN: 7692. Lectotype (Barneby in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 65: 295. 1991): [icon] " Mimosa herbacea procumbens & spinosa caule anguloso, siliquis quadrivalvibus" in Houstounia Gen. Pl. Amer.: t. 21. 1736 (LINN). Current name: Mimosa quadrivalvis L. var. quadrivalvis ( Fabaceae : Mimosoideae ).