Desmanthus leptolobus, known as prairie mimosa, prairie bundleflower or slenderlobe bundleflower,[2] is a flowering plant of the genus Desmanthus. It is native to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and has spread to Missouri and New Mexico.[3] It is often locally abundant over large expanses of rolling prairie.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Desmanthus |
| Species: | D. leptolobus
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Description edit
Desmanthus leptolobus grows easily from seed in USDA Hardiness Zones 5–8, handling freezes to ~-20 °C. The species is usually erect when young, trailing/spreading as it ages. Few to many, red-green trailing stems up to roughly a metre in length and tapering cylindrical taproots up to a metre and a half by one to two centimetres in diameter. The leaves are normally two and a half centimetres to six centimetres long and the curved, pointed leaflets are approximately two to five centimetres long by five to ten millimetres wide. The latter are narrowly elliptic to linear and arranged in 15 to 25 pairs.[5]
Seeds are thinner and more elongated than those of the closely related species Desmanthus illinoensis.[6]
Uses edit
Root bark of D. leptolobus has been found to contain a psychedelic compound called DMT and other related tryptamines. While its only reported quantitative analysis found concentrations of 0.14% of DMT (lower than has been found in Desmanthus illinoensis), one person documented a "subjectively stronger response" than D. illinoensis.[7][8] Desmanthus species have been found to have variable concentrations of DMT.[7]
The species is an early-appearing component of land-reclamation vegetation, rapidly disappearing once shrub and tree species establish.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Desmanthus leptolobus". ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Desmanthus leptolobus". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
- ^ "Biota of North America Project - Desmanthus leptolobus 2014 County Map". bonap.net. Biota of North America Project. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
- ^ "Desmanthus leptolobus". www.troutsnotes.com. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- ^ a b https://www.arkhamsbotanical.com/shop/trees-shrubs/desmanthus-leptolobus-prairie-bundleflower-seeds/
- ^ https://www.arkhamsbotanical.com/wp-content/uploads/seed-identification-photos-desmanthus-leptolobus-1.jpg [bare URL image file]
- ^ a b "Erowid Online Books : "Ayahuasca: alkaloids, plants, and analogs" by Keeper of the Trout". www.erowid.org. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
- ^ DeKorne, Jim; Aardvark, David; Trout, K. "Ayahuasca Analogues and Plant-based Tryptamines: the Best of the Entheogen Review 1992-1999, Second Edition" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-09-23.
External links edit
- Erowid Desmanthus Vault
- Desmanthus leptolobus TORREY & A.GRAY
- Ayahuasca: alkaloids, plants & analogs: assembled by Keeper of the Trout
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