Calliandra tergemina (L.) Benth. var. tergemina
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Authors
Rupert C. Barneby
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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.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
"Habitat in America meridionali." — Holotypus (Howard, 1988: 352): Acacia frutescens non aculeata, flore purpurascente Plumier ed. Burmann, Pl. amer. 5, t. X, fig. 1 (top left + misplaced caption at bottom right). 1755!. — Inga tergemina Willdenow, Sp. Pl
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Synonyms
Inga caripensis Willd. ex Humb. & Bonpl., Mimosa tergemina L.
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Description
Variety Description - Shrubs and treelets mostly <4 m; petioles very slender 0.3-0.5 mm diam; lfts thin-textured, seldom over 3 cm, obliquely obovate to inequilaterally elliptic- (ob)lanceolate, either obtuse or acute; peduncles (5-)11-28 x 0.3-0.4 mm; pedicels at most 0.25 mm, commonly 0; perianth glabrous; calyx 0.6-1.2 x 0.4—0.75(-l), the teeth 0.1-0.4 mm; corolla 4.3-7 mm; filaments bicolored, pink distally; pods 5.5-12 x 0.65-0.8 cm; seeds in broad view 7-9 x 3.5^.5 mm, pleurogram 0.
Distribution and Ecology - In drought-deciduous brush-woodland and savanna margins, sometimes invading cleared pasture, below 300 m, locally plentiful in the Lesser Antilles (Dominica to Grenada) and along the Caribbean coast of Venezuela from Paria peninsula in Sucre w. through Distrito Federal and Carabobo to e. Lara; an immature specimen from state of Bolívar at 7°22'N, 61°49'W (E. Sanoja 1185, NY) is provisionally referred here, but its varietal status is uncertain. — Map 36. — Fl. VIII—II, perhaps randomly through the year.
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Common Names
Bois patate, madam-di-poule, Clavellino
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Distribution
Dominica South America| Grenada South America| Sucre Venezuela South America| Distrito Federal Venezuela South America| Carabobo Venezuela South America| Lara Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America|