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Calliandra magdalenae var. magdalenae

Rupert C. Barneby

42b. Calliandra magdalenae (de Candolle) Bentham var. magdalenae. C. magdalenae Bentham, 1846, l.c., sens. str. Acacia magdalenae de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 455. 1825. — "ad Sanctam Martham legit cl. Bertero." — Holotypus, G-DC, seen in Microform 25, box 13!. — Feuilleea magdalenae O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 188. 1891. Anneslia magdalenae Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 60. 1928.

Acacia magdalenae Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 3: 137. 1826. — "Ad fl. Magdalenae [sic], Bertero." — Typus, presumably a duplicate of the specimen described by de Candolle under the same epithet, not known to survive.

Codonandra purpurea Karsten, Fl. Columb. 2: 43, t. CXXII. 1863. — "Habitat planities aridas siccas provinciae Venezuelanae Coro, in valle Uvedal collecta." — Holotypus not seen, but the protologue decisive. — Calliandra codonandra Bentham, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 547. 1875; non C. purpurea (Linnaeus) Bentham, 1844. Feuilleea codonandra O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 187. 1891. Calliandra magdalenae sensu Britton & Killip, 1936: 136; Woodson & Schery, 1950: 259, sens, lat., max. pro parte (exclus. syn. C. riparia, schultzei, angustidens).

As described for the species, and modified by the key to varieties.

Colonial along riverbanks in semideciduous forest- climax, in seasonally dry thickets, and surviving in pastures, 50-650 m, discontinuously dispersed in n.-w. Venezuela (Falcón, Zulia, Mérida), n. Colombia (La Guajira, Santa Marta, Bolívar), and adj. e. Panama, in ecology and dispersal suggestive of a xeromorphic derivative of var. colombiana. — Map 25. — Fl. (V-)VI-XII. -Anda-arriba (Zulia).

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.