Calliandra eriophylla var. eriophylla

Title

Calliandra eriophylla var. eriophylla

Authors

Rupert C. Barneby

Scientific Name

Calliandra eriophylla Benth. var. eriophylla

Description

16a. Calliandra eriophylla Bentham var. eriophylla. C. eriophylla Bentham, 1844, l.c., sens. str. — "Mexico; Chila in the district of Pueblo [= state of Puebla], Andrieux, n. 405." — Holotypus, K! = K Neg. 15532. — Feuilleea eriophylla O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 187. 1890. Anneslea [sic] eriophylla Britton in Britton & Kearney, Trans. New York Acad. Sci. 14: 32. 1894.

C. chamaedrys Engelmann in A. Gray, Pl. Fendler. 1: 39. 1848. — "Chihuahua, Dr. Wislizenus [from "Cachimba"], Dr. Gregg [from "Canyon of Ojito"]." — Syntypi, MO. — Equated with C. eriophylla by Bentham, 1875: 552.

C. eriophylla sensu S. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 351. 1882; Coulter, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 2: 100, exclus. syn. 1891; Wooton & Standley, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 13(6): 328, exclus. syn. 1910; Standley, 1922: Benson & Darrow, Trees and Shrubs Southw. Deserts ed. 2, 164, fig 34(d), pi. XIX(A). 1954; McVaugh, 1983: 155; Estrada, Legum. Centro-Sur de Nuevo León 53. 1992; McClintock in The Jepson Man. 605, 607(fig.). 1993. Anneslia eriophylla sensu Britton & Rose, 1928: 59, exclus. syn. C. conferta.

C. chamaedrys sensu A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 63. 1852.

As described for the species, but the pod relatively short, mostly 4—6, exceptionally to 7(-7.5) cm long.

In sandy or rocky, well-drained soils derived from either granitic, calcareous, or recent volcanic bedrock, in low desert, desert grassland, and matorral, on the Mexican Plateau entering open pine forest, in the Sonoran Desert mostly below 1000 m, but in Mexico mostly between 900 and 1950 m, locally plentiful in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts of s. United States and Mexico, discontinuously s. to Jalisco and Chiapas: in United States from s.-e. San Diego Co. in California e. across Arizona s. of the Mogollon Escarpment to the s.-w. comer of New Mexico; in Mexico from n. Baja California (Matias Pass, ±900-1000 m) and lowland Sonora to w. Tamaulipas, s. to n. Jalisco and n.-e. Oaxaca; disjunct s. of the Meseta Central in Jalisco (near Autlán, ±1000 m) and in Chiapas (La Trinitaria, ±1080 m). — Map 8 — Fl. in U.S. II-V, and following rains in IX-XI, in Mexico mostly in late summer or in winter.