Comprehensive Description
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Anneslia mollicuia (Mart. & Gal.) Britton & Rose
Acacia mollicida Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10': 313. 1843. Calliandra malacophvUa Benth. Load. Journ. Bot. 3: 100. 1844. Feuilleea malacophylla Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 188. 1891. Calliandra unijiiga pueblensis Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. 59: 4. 1919.
A shrub, much branched, the short twigs densely pilose. Leaves small; petioles and rachis pilose; pinnae usually 1 pair, rarely 2 pairs; leaflets 2-5 pairs, dull, obovate, 6-12 mm. long, obtuse, inconspicuously ■vjjined, glabrous or nearly so above, paler and softly pubescent beneath; peduncles slender, 1.5-3 cm. long, pilose; flowers glabrous; calyx about 1 mm. long; corolla 3-4 mm. long; stamens 10-12 mm. long; legume 5 cm. long, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous.
Type locality: Mountains of Tehuacan de las Granadas. Mexico. Distribution: Puebla and Oaxaca.
- 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
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Anneslia unijuga (Rose) Britton & Rose
Calliandra unijuga Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. S: 193. 1899.
A shrub, 1-2.5 m. high, with many short stiff grayish branches, glabrous throughout. Petioles 2-4 ram. long; pinnae 1 pair; leaflets 2-4 pairs, oblong, 2-4 mm. long, obtuse, dull, inconspicuously veined, sometimes apiculate; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; calyx and corolla glabrous; stamens long, white with pink tips; legume 3.5 cm. long, rounded at apex, apiculate.
Type locality: Cuicatlan, Oaxaca. Distribution: Oaxaca.
- 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
