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Calliandra haematomma var. colletioides

Rupert C. Barneby

82a.  Calliandra haematomma (de Candolle) Bentham var. colletioides (Grisebach) Barneby, comb, nov., based on autonym generated by C. colletioides var. gonavensis Urban, 1929 (vide infra). C. colletioides Grisebach, Pl. Wright. 1: 180. 1860 = Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts II, 8: 180. 1861. — "[CUBA. Oriente:] in praeruptis montium prope Nouvelle Sophie, etc. ... [C. Wright] 153." — Holotypus, GOET n.v.; isotype, A!. — Feuilleea colletioides O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 187. 1891. Anneslia colletioides Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 41: 18. 1914.

C. colletioides sensu Bentham, 1875: 575; in Hooker, Icon. 12: pl. 1167. 1876; Leon & Alain, 1951: 238; Bässler, 1990: 201, fig. 5(a), Karte 2, t. X(a). Anneslia colletioides sensu Britton & Rose, 1928: 75.

C. colletioides var. gonavensis sensu Liogier, 1985: 28.

Commonly erect and 1-2 m; lvs either glabrous, or glabrous ciliolate, or thinly puberulent dorsally; stipular spicules (1—)2—11(—13) mm; petiole of primary lvs 0.6-1.6 mm and longer rachises (0.7-)1-2.5 mm, the interfoliolar segments 0.4-1 mm; lfts 2-3 pairs, the penultimate 3-6 x 2-3.5 mm; calyx glabrous except sometimes for puberulent teeth; corolla white-silky.

In xeromorphic shrub communities and on savanna, mostly on limestone but occasionally on serpentine, locally plentiful below 200 m along and near the s. coast of Oriente, Cuba, from Cabo Maasi w. to Santiago, and in scattered stations, inland and on the n. coast of the province, to Holguín and Nicaro; one record from Camaguey. — Map 39. — Fl. XII-IV, VII-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.