Calliandra purpurea

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Subfamily Mimosoideae

Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly bipinnate. Corolla usually not showy, actinomorphic , sympetalous , the lobes valvate . Stamens 10-numerous, often monadelphous , showy. Pollen released in monads , tetrads , or polyads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) present. [Carr]

Genus Calliandra

Shrubs or small trees ; leaves bipinnate, leaflets small and numerous or larger and from few pairs to one; stiuples often persistent , rarely absent. Inflorescence globose heads , or terminal racemes . Flowers 5-6 merous, with long stamens, red, white and showy. Calyx dentate or rarely deeply divided . Petals united to the middle . Stamens numerous, up to 100, more or less united into a tube and long - exserted, anthers mostly glandular hairy . Ovary sessile, ovules numerous; style filiform . Fruit linear , straight or nearly so, margins thickened, 2 valved , dehiscing from both the margins, continuous inside. Seed obovate or orbicular , compressed .

A genus with about 200 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical America, Madagascar, W. Tropical Africa, India and E. Pakistan.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Anneslia purpurea (L.) Britton • Anneslia purpurea (L.)britton • Calliandra conoensis H. Karst. • Calliandra coroensis H. Karst. • Calliandra obtusifolia (Willd.)h. Karst. • Calliandra purpurea var. dussiana Stehle • Calliandra purpurea var. quentiniana Stehle • Calliandra slaneae R. A. Howard • Feuilleea purpurea (L.) Kuntze • Feuilleea purpurea Kuntze • Inga obtusifolia Willd. • Inga purpurea (L.) Willd. • Inga purpurea (L.)willd. • Mimosa obtusifolia Poir. • Mimosa purpurea L.

Notes

Publishing author : Benth. Publication : London J. Bot. 3: 104 1844

Basionym author: (L.)

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Habit: Shrub , Lifespan: Perennial

Last scrutiny: 1994-1995

Similar Species

Members of the genus Calliandra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 39 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. belizensis (Barba De Viejo) · C. biflora (Two-Flowered Stick-Pea) · C. brevicaulis (Nino Sote) · C. brevicaulis var. brevicaulis (Nino Sote) · C. brevicaulis var. glabra (Anchiguito) · C. brevipes (Pink Powderpuff) · C. californica (Baja Fairy Duster) · C. conferta (Fairy Duster) · C. eriophylla (Desert Fairy Duster) · C. eriophylla var. chamaedrys (Fairyduster) · C. eriophylla var. eriophylla (Fairyduster) · C. glomerulata var. glomerulata (Cansa-Caballo) · C. glyphoxylon (Palo De Las Siete Vueltas) · C. haematocephala (Bellota) · C. haematocephala var. boliviana (Powder-Puff-Tree) · C. haematocephala 'Alba' (Powder Puff) · C. haematocephala 'Nana' (Dwarf Red Powderpuff Tree) · C. haematomma (Red Powderpuff) · C. haematomma var. haematomma (Clavelina) · C. houstoniana (Kaliandra) · C. humilis (Dwarf Stickpea) · C. humilis var. humilis (Dwarf Guajilla) · C. humilis var. reticulata (Dwarf Stickpea) · C. iselyi (Iselys Stickpea) · C. laxa (Cuming's Stickpea) · C. laxa var. laxa (Clavellina Serrana) · C. molinae (Palo Corcho) · C. parviflora (Angiquinho) · C. pittieri var. polyphylla (Clavellino) · C. purpurea (Purple Stickpea) · C. rubescens (Cabellos De Angel) · C. schultzii (Pink Powder Puff) · C. surinamensis (Officiers-Kwast) · C. tergemina (Dwarf Red Powderpuff) · C. tergemina emarginata (Pink Powder Puff) · C. tergemina var. emarginata (Clavellino) · C. tweedii (Mexican Flame Bush) · C. 'Pink Pixie' (Powderpuff) · C. 'Sierra Starr' (Fairy Duster Hybrid)

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Further Reading

• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 60.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. 1879 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 49.
• Contributions to North American ichthyology. Based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1877-78. url p. 49.
• Dedication papers: scientific papers presented at the dedication of the laboratory building and plant houses, April 19-21, 1917. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1918. url p. 50.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1943 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1943] url p. 70, p. 71.
• Flora of the island of St. Croix. By Charles Frederick Millspaugh. 1 1902 Chicago, 1902. url p. 491.
• Grisebach, A. H. R. Flora of the British West Indian islands /by A.H.R. Grisebach. [1859]-18 London, L. Reeve, 1864. url p. 787.
• Johnson's Gardeners' dictionary and cultural instructor. London, A. T. De La Mare printing and publishing co., ltd.[1916] url p. 455, p. 559.
• Memoirs / Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Garden, 1918-1936. url p. 50.
• National list of scientific plant names. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1982- url p. 26.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 3.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 340.
• The flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands, by Baron H.F.A. Eggers. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1879. url p. 49.
• The flora of the American Virgin Islands / N.L. Britton. New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1918. url p. 50.

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2665888
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11776
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13638233
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:483250-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 8511
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 501130
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1135490-1
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ANPU11
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 21365

Footnotes

1. "Calliandra". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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