Calliandra umbrosa

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

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]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Inga umbrosa Wall.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

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

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

• A manual of Indian timbers: an account of the structure, growth, distribution, and qualities of Indian woods. CalcuttaOffice of the Superintendent of Govt. Printing1881 url p. 145.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 301, p. 415, p. 420, p. 465, p. 504.
• Indian trees: an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian empire / London: A. Constable, 1906. url p. 273.
• Materials for a flora of the Malayan Peninsula. By George King [and J.S. Gamble]. Calcutta;1889-1936. url p. 8.
• The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 302, p. 302.
• The flora of the Malay Peninsula. By Henry N. Ridley, with illus. by J. Hutchinson. London, L. Reeve & co., ltd., 1922-25. url p. 665.
• The flora sylvatica for southern India: containing quarto plates of all the principal timber trees in southern India and Ceylon, accompanied by a botanical manual, with descriptions of every known tree and shrub, and analysis of every genus Madras, Printed by Gantz Brothers[1869-73] url p. 317.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2844332
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-20109
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 420395

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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