I did find a promising candidate, Mimosa diplotricha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_diplotricha http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&state=&s=&ibra=all&card=S17
Thanks Ashish, Dan also thinks so but I still can't find one with leaves of four to five pinnae pairs. What makes the search harder is that this is a young plant. Photo was also taken early morning so leaves are probably just "opening." I must remind myself to take more notice of these when I go to the fields again.
The first photo has leaves that seems to be folding but unlike Mimosa pudica that has leaves that are bipinnately compound, with one or two pinnae pairs, this one has four and five pairs.
No problem. I've seen many areas in the tropics where sensitive plants grow like this in a grassy clearing. They can be like a weed. Where are you based out of in The Philippines?
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