Calliandra Benth.

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Physical Description:

Perennial, Trees, Shrubs, Woody throughout, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems 1-2 m tall, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules green, triangulate to lanceolate or foliaceous, Stipules membranous or chartaceous, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves bipinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences globose heads, capitate or subcapitate, Inflorescence axillar y, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers sessile or nearly so, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals united, valvate, Petals greenish yellow, Stamens numerous, more than 10, Stamens monadelphous, united below, Stamens long exserted, Filaments glabrous, Filaments pink or red, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seed surface with resinous dots, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

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Holotype for Calliandra angustidens Britton & Killip
Catalog Number: US 1470731
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Pérez Arbeláez
Locality: Villa Vicencia., Meta, Colombia, South America

  • Holotype: Britton, N. L. & Killip, E. P. 1936. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 35: 134.
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Calliandra surinamensis:

Calliandra surinamensis is a low branching evergreen tropical shrub that is named after Suriname, a country in Northern South America. The plant usually has complexly branched multiple trunks and grows to a height of about 5 metres, although many sources suggest that it only attains a height of 3 metres. Left unpruned it grows long thin branches that eventually droop down onto the ground.



Description[edit]

Leaves[edit]

The leaves are bipinnate. Each pair of leaflets, or pinnae, are in turn divided into about six pairs of leaflets, pinnules.


Pink Powder Puff in tropical Cairns

Flowers[edit]

The flowers present as globose heads with small green petals and calyx with up to a 100 stamens more or less united into a tube. The stamens are long, hairlike, colourful and protrude well beyond the petals. C. surinamensis flowers all year round with definite more prolific periods. The flowers are short lived and sticky and combined with their quantity give this plant a reputation for making a mess especially on vehicles parked under it.

Stamens[edit]

The numerous colourful stamens are white towards the base and pink towards the top. It is the stamens & anthers that give the flower the appearance of a pink powder puff.

Interactions[edit]

The shrub's year round nectar and pollen attracts wildlife such as lorikeets and fruit bats.

Fruit[edit]

The fruit is a 4 centimetres (1.5 in) long pod´

Common Names[edit]

Pink Powder Puff, Pompon De Marin, Surinam Powderpuff, Surinamese Stickpea

Flower gallery[edit]

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Description:

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves 2-pinnate. Flowers numerous, pink or white in spherical or 'powder-puff' heads. Calyx 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, small, concealed among the numerous long stamens; stamens with coloured filaments, these providing much of the colour of the inflorescence. Ovary with many ovules. Pod ± straight, usually flattened, not pulpy within, elastically dehiscent from the apex.

Quite similar in appearance to Albizia and differing from that genus in the method of dehiscence of the pod.

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Statistics of barcoding coverage:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:87
Specimens with Sequences:74
Specimens with Barcodes:71
Species:32
Species With Barcodes:27
Public Records:37
Public Species:22
Public BINs:0

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Barcode data:

Access Published & Released Data: Download FASTA File

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Calliandra:

Calliandra is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae. It contains about 140 species that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas.[2]



Description[edit]

The genus comprises herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs and rarely small trees growing 0.5–6 m tall, with bipinnate leaves. The flowers are produced in cylindrical or globose inflorescences and have numerous long slender stamens which give rise to the common names powder-puff, powder puff plant, and fairy duster. These plants flower all year round, but the best blooming is in spring and summer. They can be easily pruned.

Selected species[edit]

Formerly placed here[edit]

Gallery[edit]

  • Calliandra tweediei

  • Buds and open flowers of Calliandra calothyrsus

  • Powder Puff

References[edit]

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  1. ^ a b "Genus: Calliandra Benth.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2013-07-24. 
  2. ^ de Souza, Élvia Rodrigues; Lewis, Gwilym P.; Forest, Félix; Schnadelbach, Alessandra S.; van den Berg, Cássio; de Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci. Phylogeny of Calliandra (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) based on nuclear and plastid molecular markers. 2013. Taxon. 62(6): 1200-1219
  3. ^ a b "GRIN Species Records of Calliandra". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2013-07-24. 
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