123. Calliandra quetzal (J. D. Smith) J. D. Smith, Enum. Pl. Guatemal. 8: 36. 1907. Anneslia quetzal J. D. Smith, Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 13: 28. 1888. — "Santa Rosa, Dept. Baja Verapaz . . . July, 1887. Ex pl. Guat. cit. [H. von Tuerckheim] 1324." — Holotypus, US!; isotypi, K!, NY (2 sheets)!.  Fig. 28.

Anneslia quetzal sensu Britton & Rose, 1928: 74. Calliandra quetzal sensu Standley & Steyermark, 1946: 26.

Macrophyllidious shrubs 1-2 m, glabrous except for some minutely ciliolate lfts, with terete smooth hornotinous stems, dilated stipules, and plane chartaceous bicolored lfts dark dull brown-olivaceous above and paler dull cinnamon-brown beneath, the inflorescence a terminal exserted efoliate pseudoraceme of few-fld umbelliform capitula; phyllotaxy distichous. Stipules resembling lfts in size and texture, suborbicular-flabellate or broadly reniform ±10-24 x 12-30(-36) mm, broadly obtuse, flabellately many-nerved from base, persistent. Lf-formula ii—iii/6—9; lf-stks 4—9 cm, the petiole 2-3.5 cm, shallowly and narrowly sulcate ventrally, the longer interpinnal segment 1.5-3.7 cm, the terminal appendage linear-lanceolate caducous; pinnae a little accrescent distally, the rachis of furthest pair 5-9 cm, the longer interfoliolar segments 8-16 mm; lft-pulvinules 1.2-1.6 x 0.55-0.7 mm, sharply wrinkled; lft-blades broadly elliptic, oblong-elliptic or suborbicular from shallowly semicordate base, the penultimate ones ±24 x 1.3-2.2 cm, 1.2-2 times as long as wide; venation pinnate, the midrib subcentric, straight, 4—7-branched on each side, the secondary nerves slender, brochidodrome well within the margin. Primary axis of inflorescence ±1-2 dm, simple; peduncles either solitary or geminate (2-)7-26 mm, ebracteate, abruptly dilated at apex; capitula 4-5-fld, the floral bracts subobsolete, the pedicels 3-6 x 0.5-0.65 mm; fl-buds plumply ellipsoid, short-acuminate; perianth firm but scarcely fleshy, glabrous, brown in dried specimens, the calyx faintly several-nerved, the corolla not so; calyx campanulate 3.6-5 x 2.3-4.5 mm, the teeth either deltate or broadly ovate obtuse 1.5-1.8 mm; corolla 9.5-15 mm, the lobes free through 3.5-4 mm, or further in late anthesis; androecium 54-66-merous, 3.4-5.2 cm, the tube 5.5-7 mm, the stemonozone to 2.6 mm, the tassel white, the intrastaminal nectary ±1.2 mm tall. Pods (not seen) described as ±10 x 1.5 cm, glabrous.