Calliandra Species Pages

Calliandra bahiana var. erythematosa

Rupert C. Barneby

87b.  Calliandra bahiana Renvoize var. erythematosa Barneby, var. nov., a var. bahiana vix nisi perianthio toto rubido-granuloso, haud vel parcissime brevissime griseo-puberulo (nec ubique pilosulo) necnon dispersione allopatrica diversa. — BAHIA: 5 km s. of rio de Contas on road to Livramento do Brumado, 16 April 1991 (fl, fr), G. P. Lewis (with S. M. M. de Andrade) 1986. — Holotypus, CEPEC; isotypi, K, MO, NY.

In disturbed cerrado, campos gerais, and campo rupestre with arenitic outcrops, sometimes on river banks, 975-1600 m, locally common but known only from mun. rio de Contas in interior Bahia, Brazil. — Fl. III-VII.

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.