Calliandra Species Pages
Calliandra haematomma var. glabrata
Rupert C. Barneby
82f. Calliandra haematomma (de Candolle) Bentham var. glabrata Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. I. 224. 1860, based in part on Acacia pilosa Bertero ex de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 455. 1825. — "... in Jamaica (Bertero)." — Holotypus, G-DC!, verified by Urban, l.c. infra. —Anneslia pilosa Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 75. 1928. Calliandra pilosa Urban, Ark. Bot. 24A, 4: 6. 1931. Fig. 19.
C. haematomma var. glabrata sensu Urban, Symb. antill. 2: 263. 1900.
C. haematomma sensu Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica 4: 143. 1920.
C. pilosa sensu Adams, Fl. Pl. Jamaica 332. 1972.
Arborescent shrubs 2-4 m with virgate branches, differing from all other varieties of C. haematomma in whitish, not red or pink filaments; lfts mostly glabrous, but sometimes ciliolate or thinly strigulose dorsally; stipular spicules to 4.5 mm; petiole of primary lvs 1-2.5 mm and longer rachises 6-15 mm, the longer interfoliolar segments 1-2.1 mm; lfts 6-8(-9) pairs, the penultimate 3.7-7 x 1-1.7 mm; calyx glabrous; corolla glabrous, or its tube thinly strigulose and its lobes glabrous.
On dry brushy hillsides and in coppice along the shore, 1-180 m, locally plentiful but apparently confined to the coast and foothills of s.-e. Jamaica, from Kingston Bay in Saint Catherine and Saint Andrew parishes w. into Clarendon Parish. — Map 39. — Fl. IX—II.
De Candolle described the leaflets of Acacia pilosa as up to 13 pairs per pinna. His material was sterile, but his description of the stipules and their dorsal spicule is definitive for C. haematomma in the context of the Jamaican flora. The first anterior leaflet of each rachis is sometimes wanting and the leaflets therefore of odd number; the 13 pairs may be a slip for 13 leaflets, seen in some modern gatherings.
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:
