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[ Callianassa ] [ Calliandra ] [ Calliandropsis ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Calliandra

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.