Calliandra Species Pages
Calliandra humilis var. humilis
Rupert C. Barneby
17a. Calliandra humilis Bentham var. humilis. C. humilis Bentham, 1846, l.c., sens. str. — "[MEXICO.] Zacatecas, Coulter." — Holotypus, Coulter 511, K!; isotypus (fragm), GH!; phototypus, NY!. — Equated with Anneslia herbacea by Britton & Rose, 1928: 57; non Anneslia humilis (Schlechtendal) Britton & Rose. Fig. 3
Acacia humilis Schlechtendal, Linnaea 12: 567. 1838. — "Pr[ope] Reglam [estado Hidalgo, Mexico]...(C. Ehrenberg) " — Holotypus, to be sought at HAL (n.v.); phototypus, Ehrenberg 563, NY!. — Feuilleea humilis O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 188. 1891. Anneslia humilis Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 57. 1928. Calliandra humilis L. Benson ex B. L. Turner, Leg. Tex. 31 (lapsu pro C. humilis Bentham). 1959. — Non Calliandra humilis Bentham, 1846.
Calliandra (?) herbacea Engelmann ex A. Gray, Pl. Fendler. 39. 1849. — "[August Fendler] 180 ... Between San Miguel and Las Vegas [San Miguel County, New Mexico] . . in 1847." — Lectotypus (Isely, 1972: 179), GH!. — Anneslia herbacea Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 57. 1928. — Equated with Calliandra humilis by A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 53. 1853.
C. humilis sensu Bentham, 1875: 552; Kearney & Peebles, 1951: 396; Correll & Johnston, 1979: 770; C. humilis var. humilis sensu Isely, 1972: 278; 1973: 80, map 17 (U.S.); McVaugh, 1987: 163-164.
C. herbacea sensu Turner, Leg. Tex. 31: 1959; Correll & Johnston, 1979: 770.
Variable in stature, density of indumentum, and development of peduncles, but lf-formula and lft-size as given in the key to varieties; lfts commonly imbricate or contiguous along pinna-rachis; androecial tassel commonly pink in United States, often white s.- ward from Durango, but the color in most populations not known.
In desert grassland, open pinyon-juniper and oak- juniper woodland, and thin yellow-pine forest, n.-e.- ward in short-grass prairie transitional to forest, (950-) 1200-2250(-2400) m, locally plentiful but the populations widely scattered, interior s.-w. United States and parts of the Mexican Plateau: in Arizona and New Mexico common around the sources of the Gila River, n. and n.-w. to Hualpai Mts. in Mohave County and the Coconino Plateau s. of Grand Canyon; disjunct in New Mexico on the upper Rio Grande in Sandoval County and the sources of Pecos River in San Miguel Co.; trans-Pecos Texas (Davis, Tierra Vieja and Chinati Mts.) and adjoining n. Coahuila; and in Mexico e. of the Continental Divide from Chihuahua to Zacatecas and n. Jalisco. — Map 9. — Fl. (late V-)VI-VIII.
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.Multimedia:
