Calliandra brevipes

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

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

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Acacia selloi Spreng. • Anneslia Brevipes • Anneslia brevipes (Benth.) Lindm. • Calliandra yucunensis N. F. Mattos • Feuilleea brevipes (Benth.) Kuntze • Feuilleea brevipes Kuntze

Notes

Publishing author : Benth. Publication : J. Bot. (Hooker) 2: 140 1840

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

• A manual of gardening for Bengal and Upper India. By Thomas A. C. Firminger. .. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and co.; [etc., etc.]1874. url p. 459.
• Curtis's botanical magazine. 76 1850 London; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.] url , , p. 23, p. 3.
• Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 212.
• Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. url p. 22.
• Lindley, J. Paxton's flower garden /by Professor Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton. 1 1853 London: Bradbury and Evans, [1850]-1853. url p. 191.
• Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1848-1916. url p. 63.
• 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 florist and garden miscellany. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850-1851. url p. 102.
• The natural history of plants. Translated by Marcus M. Hartog. LondonL. Reeve1871- url p. 46.
• Vernacular list of trees, shrubs, and woody climbers in the Madras Presidency. Madras, Printed by the Superintendant, Government Press, 1915. url p. 360, p. 744, p. 903, p. 912, p. 938.

Notes

Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, New York Botanical Garden
• SysTax, SysTax
• The New York Botanical Garden, Species of Eastern Brazil Vascular Plant Specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2837723
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-127
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13637312
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:483061-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 8501
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 42097-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 401233

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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