Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Anneslia rhodocephala (Donn. vSmith) Britton & Rose
CalUandra rhodocephala Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 49; 454. 1910.
A glabrous shrub, 2-5 m. high, the twigs rather stout. Stipules ovate-oblong, about 8 mm. long; petiole 1-1.5 cm. long; pinnae 1 pair; leaflets 3 pairs, or 3^ pairs,«oblong to ellipticlanceolate, acute or short-acuminate, shining, coarsely reticulate-veined, dark green above, light green beneath, the upper ones 10-12 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, the lower smaller; peduncles solitary or clustered, 1-3 cm. long; heads many-flowered; calyx about 3 mm. long; corolla about 8 mm. long; stamens red, about 2.5 cm. long, their tube a little longer than the corolla.
Type locality ; Near Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
