Calliandra Species Pages
Calliandra pittieri var. polyphylla
Rupert C. Barneby
1b. Calliandra pittieri Standley var. polyphylla (Harms) Barneby, stat. nov. Calliandra polyphylla Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 8: 51. 1921. — "Venezuela: Carabobo, Guaremales, Strasse von P[uerto] Cabello nach San Felipe...10-100 m (PITTIER n. 8861 — V.-VI. 1920)." — Holotypus, presumably †B; isotypus, NY!.
C. rupicola Pittier, Arb. Arbust. Venez. 4/5: 49. 1923. — "en tierra caliente, cerca de Curucuti, D.F., (P[ittier] 10.221)." —Holotypus, presumably VEN (n.v.); isotypus, NY!.
C. porphyrea Pittier, Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 4(30): 81. 1937. — "[Venezuela.] Aragua: Parque Nacional, cerca del punto culminante de la Carretera a Choroni, a 1600 m. de altitud; flores Febr. 19, 1937 (Pittier 13925 . .)." — Holotypus, presumably VEN (n.v.); isotypi, K!, NY!.
Distinguished feebly from var. pittieri by prevailingly longer pinna-rachises and mostly longer and slightly broader lfts, as specified in key to varieties.
In seasonally dry, virgin and second-growth, upland forest and along sunny riverbanks in more humid forest, 400-1600 m, on the n. slope of Cordillera Costanera in Venezuela descending to Caribbean lowland dry forest near 10 m, discontinuously dispersed in n. Venezuela from Anzoátegui to Carabobo, Trujillo and w. Barinas; apparently disjunct in Colombia on the slope of Cordillera Oriental in s. Boyacá and on tributaries of lower rio Cauca in Antioquia. — Map 1. — Fl. II-IX, perhaps intermittently through the year. — Clavellino, a name applied also to related species.
References: [Article] Barneby, Rupert C. 1998. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part III. Calliandra. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74: 1-223.