Calliandra houstoniana var. anomala

  • Title

    Calliandra houstoniana var. anomala

  • Authors

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Scientific Name

    Calliandra houstoniana var. anomala (Kunth) Barneby

  • Description

    118a. Calliandra houstoniana (Miller) Standley var. anomala (Kunth) Barneby, comb. nov., based immediately on autonym Inga anomala var. anomala generated by I. anomala var. pedicellata de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 442. 1825, and ultimately on Inga anomala Kunth, Mimoses 70, pl. 22. 1820. — ". . . in regno Mexicano, prope urbem Pascuaro et in declivitate montis ignivomi Jorullo [Michoacan]." — Holotypus, P-HBK!, photo, NY!. — Calliandra kunthii Bentham, J. Bot. (Hooker) 2: 139. 1840; & London J. Bot. 3: 112. 1844, nom. illegit. Calliandra anomala Macbride, Contrib. Gray Herb., n. ser. 59: 4. 1919. Anneslia anomala Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 73. 1928. — Equated with C. grandiflora (L’Heritier) Bentham by Riley, Bull. Misc. Inform. 1923: 397. 1923; Standley, Contrib. Natl. Herb. 23: 1658. 1926.

    Mimosa grandiflora L’Heritier, Sert. angl., fasc. 1. 30, "t. 42 [but this not published and the original lacking in L’Heritier’s papers at G-DC.]." 1789. — Described from plants grown in England, introduced from "India orientalis" according to Aiton, Hort. kew. 3: 441. 1789, "by Mrs Morton . . ca 1769." — No typus found at BM, an old specimen cultivated at Kew, from herbarium of Bishop Goodenough, was identified by Verdcourt (annot. 1984) with L’Heritier’s plant and is recommended as neotypus, replacing that proposed by Macqueen and H. Hernández, 1997: 21. — Acacia grandiflora Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4:1074. 1806. Calliandra grandiflora Bentham, J. Bot. (Hooker) 2: 139. 1840; & London J. Bot. 3: 111. 1844. Anneslia grandiflora Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 70. 1928.

    Inga anomala var. ß pedicellata de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 442. 1825. — Based on crude figures of Sessé seen as Caique des dessins 206 (NY, library!) and of Tlacoxiloxochitl Hernández, Nova Pl. Hist. 104, fig. 1, 2. 1651, these here regarded as syntypi. — Referred by Britton & Rose, 1928: 71, with marks of interrogation, both to Anneslia callistemon and to A. strigillosa; by Macqueen and H. M. Hernández, 1997: 21 to C. grandiflora.

    Acacia callistemon Schlechtendal, Linnaea 12: 568. 1838. — "Pr[ope] Reglam [Hidalgo, Mexico] (C. Ehrenberg), Mexico (hb. Lehm[ann.])" — No typus seen. — Calliandra callistemon Bentham ex Jackson, Index Kew. 1: 385. 1893. C. anomala var. callistemon Macbride, Contrib. Gray Herb., n. ser. 59: 4. 1919. — Anneslia callistemon Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 71. 1928. — Equated with C. grandiflora by Macqueen & H. M. Hernández, 1977: 23.

    Anneslia chihuahuana Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 71. 1928. — "Southwestern Chihuahua, August-November 1885, [Edward] Palmer 266." — Holotypus, NY!; isotypus, K!.

    A. strigillosa Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 71, syn. dubio candolleano incluso. 1928. — "Type from Eugenio, Sierra de la Cruz, Orizaba [Veracruz, Mexico], 1853, F. Mueller 1594." — Holotypus, NY!. — Calliandra strigillosa Standley ex Leavenworth, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 36: 143. 1946.

    A. bella Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 71. 1928. — "[Mexico. Jalisco:] . . . between Bolanos and Guadalajara, September 20. 1897, [J. N.] Rose 3036." — Holotypus, NY!; isotypus, US!. —Non Calliandra bella Bentham, 1844.

    A. conzattiana Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 72. 1928 — "Type from Cerro San Antonio, Oaxaca ... June 26, 1906, Conzatti 1424" — Holotypus, NY!. — Calliandra conzattiana Standley, Trop. Woods 34: 40. 1933.

    A. albanensis Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 72. 1928. — "Monte Alban, Oaxaca, December 29, 1895, [Caec. & Ed] Seler 1734." — Holotypus, NY!.

    A. albescens Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 72. 1928- "[Mexico.]. . extreme southern Durango, August 13, 1897, [J. N.]Rose 2254." — Holotypus, NY!; isotypus, US!.

    A. pueblana Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 73. 1928. — "[Mexico.] vicinity of San Luis Tultitlanapa, Puebla, near Oaxaca, June-August, 1908, [C. A.] Purpus 2666." — Holotypus, NY!.

    A. rusbyi Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 194. 1928. — "Limon Mountain, Guerrero, [Mexico], July 2, 1910, H. H. [& Ruth] Rusby 22." — Holotypus, NY!; isotypus, NY!.

    Calliandra leucothrix Standley, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 17: 366. 1938. — "Honduras. near El Achote, hills above the plains of Siguatepeque, Dept. Comayagua, 1350 meters, July 26, 1936, T. C. Yuncker, R. F. Dawson & H. R. Youse 6128." — Holotypus, F!; isotypus, NY!. — Non Anneslia leucotricha Britton & Rose, 1928.

    C. anomala var. longipedicellata McVaugh, Fl. Novo-galiciana 5: 151. 1987. — "[Mexico.] Jal[isco] . . 11-12 mi S of Talpa, McVaugh 21323." — Holotypus, MICH!. — C. longipedicellata Macqueen & Hernández, Kew Bull. 52: fig. 9, map 4.

    Lf-formula (x-)xi-xxiv(-xxxi)/(21-)24-52(-55); lf-stks (7-)8-20(-21) cm, the longer interpinnal segments 3-12 mm; rachis of longer pinnae (1.8-)2-4.6(-5.5) cm; larger lfts (2.5-)3.2-7 x (0.4-)0.6-l .4 (-1.5) mm, (3.2-)3.7-5.5(-6) times as long as wide. Inflorescence thinly to densely strigulose or pilosulous with either appressed or spreading-ascending hairs, those from Michoacán n.-w.-ward mostly pallid, from Michoacán s.-e.-ward mostly or wholly yellowish, brown, dusky, or black; peduncles 4—12(—16) mm; pedicels (l-)1.4-4.5 mm, or in W. Mexico (1.8—)2.5—8 mm, 0.35-1 mm diam at anthesis; calyx (1—) 1.2—2.8 (-3) x 2.2-4.2(-5) mm, the teeth 0.3-1.1 (-1.2) mm; corolla (6.5-)7-12(-14) mm, at early anthesis cleft ±?-½ its length, but the lobes later separating to rim of stemonozone; androecium 4-7.5(-8) cm, the free filaments scarlet or carmine throughout. Pods 7-11 x 0.9-1.5(—1.6) cm, pilose-velutinous with fuscous or partly fuscous, rarely with white or yellowish-white hairs.

    In oak- and pine-forest, 750-2400 m, locally plentiful and sometimes associated with var. houstoniana, widespread in tropical Mexico s.-ward from s. Sonora and Hidalgo, s.-e. through upland Chiapas to Guatemala and Honduras. — Map 41. — Fl. (VI-)VII-II(-III).

    The taxon longipedicellata was originally separated from C. anomala by long pedicels and winter anthesis, and further from C. grandiflora by Macqueen & Hernández (1997: 16) by details of seedlings.

    Note that Macqueen and Hernández (1997: 23) attribute to C. grandiflora the types of Inga sericea Martens & Galeotti and I. elegans Martens & Galeottii (Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 10: 318, 321. 1843), collected by Galeotti in Oaxaca (nos. 3418, 3235, both BR, not seen by me).