Calliandra tergemina var. emarginata (Willd.) Barneby

  • Authors

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Authority

    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.

  • Family

    Mimosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Calliandra tergemina var. emarginata (Willd.) Barneby

  • Type

    "Habitat in America meridionali"; but the true origin stated by Kunth, Mimoses 54, pl. 17. 1820: "in litore occidentali Regni Mexicani, prope Acapulco [Guerrero]." — Holotypus, Humboldt 3859 in B-WILLD, seen in Microform! = F Neg. 1238!. — Mimosa emargina

  • Synonyms

    Inga canescens Schltdl. & Cham., Calliandra tetraphylla (G.Don) Benth., Inga semicordata Bertol., Calliandra seemannii Benth. ex Seem., Calliandra rupestris Brandegee, Calliandra purpusii Brandegee, Calliandra langlassei Harms, Calliandra mexicana Brandegee, Anneslia yucatanensis Britton & Rose, Anneslia sinaloana Britton & Rose, Anneslia cruziana Britton & Rose, Anneslia juchitana Britton & Rose, Anneslia leucotricha Britton & Rose, Anneslia deamii Britton & Rose, Calliandra tolimensis Taub., Inga emarginata Willd. ex Hump. & Bonpl., Calliandra langlassei Harms, Calliandra canescens (Schltdl. & Cham.) Benth., Feuilleea canescens (Schltdl. & Cham.) Kuntze, Anneslia canescens (Schltdl. & Cham.) Britton & Rose, Calliandra tetraphylla (G.Don) Benth., Feuilleea tetraphylla (G.Don) Kuntze, Calliandra emarginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Benth., Anneslia seemannii (Seem. ex Benth.) Britton & Rose, Anneslia rupestris (Brandegee) Britton & Rose, Anneslia purpusii Britton & Rose, Anneslia mexicana (Brandegee) Britton & Rose, Calliandra yucatanensis (Britton & Rose) Standl., Calliandra sinaloana (Britton & Rose) Standl., Calliandra cruziana (Britton & Rose) Standl., Calliandra emarginata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Benth., Calliandra deamii (Britton & Rose) Standl., Calliandra uribei Killip & Dugand

  • Description

    Variety Description - Shrubs and trees flowering when (0.6-)1-6(-10) m tall, quite glabrous to finely pilosulous; petioles (4-)5-28 x 0.4-0.85 mm; lfts membranous to chartaceous, either glabrous or glabrous ciliolate, or pilosulous on one or both faces, the distal pair (1.3—)1.6—7.5(-8) x (1.4—)1.8—3.4(—3.8) cm; peduncles 16-40 x 0.4-0.7 mm; perianth either glabrous, or weakly strigulose, or pilosulous, the calyx 1.2-3.6(4) x 0.7-1.4(1.5) mm, the teeth 0.1-0.9(1) mm; corolla (4-)4.6-9(exceptionally 11, 12) mm; filaments commonly white pink-tipped, exceptionally white, randomly deep red-carmine throughout; pods 6-15 x 0.6-1.4 cm, usually glabrous, sometimes finely pilosulous; seeds in broad view 8.5-11 x 3.5-5.5 mm, almost always pleurogrammic.

    Distribution and Ecology - In brush-woodland, short-tree forest, glades in oak-woods, and riparian or on drier ridge habitats in submontane forest, flourishing in disturbed woodland and on roadsides, 1-1050 m and recorded in El Salvador at 1100, in Colombia at 1300, and in Chiapas at 1500 m, discontinuously widespread from n.-w. subtropical Mexico to Yucatan Peninsula, s.-e. through Central America to inter-Andean and n.-w. Amazonian Colombia and n.-w. Venezuela: in w. Mexico s.-ward from 27°N (Sa. de Alamos) and on the Gulf lowlands from the Tropic line; in Colombia on the Magdalena valley s. to Tolima, e. very locally to Serranía de la Macarena at ±74°W in Meta and to arenitic hills at 70°30'W in Vaupes; in Venezuela very local in Lara; formerly cultivated in Cuba, in Florida, and under glass n.-ward. — Map 36. — Fl. nearly throughout the year, most abundantly XI-V.

  • Common Names

    Clavellino

  • Distribution

    Chiapas Mexico North America| Magdalena Colombia South America| Tolima Colombia South America| Meta Colombia South America| Vaupés Colombia South America| Lara Venezuela South America| Cuba South America| Florida United States of America North America| El Salvador Central America|