Question

5. What type of leaf is that of Mimosa pudica:

(a) Simple pinnate
(b) Simple palmate
(c) Compound bipinnate
(d) Decompound​

Answer 1

Explanation:

(Mimosaceae) also referred to as touch me not, live and die, shame plant and humble plant is a prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America and Australia, also found in India heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched and cooled.

Answer 2

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The leaf of Mimosa pudica is bipinnately compound. It contains leaflets arranged in opposite arrangement on the rachis. It has unipnnate leaves instead of single leaflets in the opposite direction on the rachis.

Thus, the correct answer is 'compound Bipinnate.'

Option c ☑️