Calliandra
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[ Callianassa ] [ Calliandra ] [ Calliandropsis ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Calliandra

Fairy duster
fairyduster
red powderpuff
stickpea

Hierarchical position of the Genus Calliandra

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Fabales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838.
common name: legumes
  
   Familia  Fabaceae Lindl.
pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836.
common name: Leguminosae
  
   Familia  Leguminosae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 345. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Calliandra Benth.
common name: stickpea
  

Named members of the Genus Calliandra

1
   Species  biflora Tharp
common name: twoflower stickpea
2
   Species  conferta Benth.
common name: Rio Grande stickpea
3
   Species  coulteri S. Wats.
common name: Coulter's stickpea
4
   Species  cumingii Benth.
common name: Cuming's stickpea
5
   Species  eriophylla Benth.
common name: Fairy duster
  
 
6
   Varietas  chamaedrys Isely
common name: fairyduster
7
   Varietas  eriophylla
common name: fairyduster
8
   Species  haematocephala Hassk.
common name: stickpea
9
   Species  haematomma (Bertero ex DC.) Benth.
common name: red powderpuff
10
   Species  herbacea Engelm.
syn. Calliandra humilis var. humilis
11
   Species  humilis Benth.
 
12
   Varietas  humilis
common name: dwarf stickpea
13
   Varietas  reticulata (Gray) L. Benson
common name: dwarf stickpea
14
   Species  locoensis R. Garcia & D. Kolterman
15
   Species  portoricensis (Jacq.) Benth.
syn. Zapoteca portoricensis
16
   Species  purpurea (L.) Benth.
common name: purple stickpea
17
   Species  reticulata Gray
syn. Calliandra humilis var. reticulata
18
   Species  schottii Torr. ex S. Wats.
common name: Schott's stickpea
19
   Species  surinamensis Benth.
common name: Surinamese stickpea

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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