Red Powderpuff

Anneslia minutifolia (Urban) Britton & Rose
Calliandra haematosloma minutifolia Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 263. 1900. Calliandra haematomma minutifolia Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. 59: 6. 1919.
A shrub, with slender branches. Stipular spines straight, 3-5 mm. long; leaflets 6-9 pairs, obovate or oblong-obovate, 1-3 mm. long, obtuse; peduncles pilose, 1 cm. long or shorter; heads several-flowered; calyx glabrous, striate, about 2 mm. long, its teeth ovate; corolla glabrous, about 5 mm. long, its lobes ovate-lanceolate; stamens red, about 15 mm. long, their tube included.
Type LOCALITi': Near Cadets, Haiti, at 1,200 m. altitude. Distribution: Haiti.

Anneslia haematostoma (Bertero) Britton, Mem. Brookiyn Bot Card. 1: 50. 1918.
Acacia hacmatomma Bertero; DC. Mem. Leg. 448. 1825.
Calliandra hacmatomma Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3: 103. 1844.
Feuilleea hacmatomma Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 188. 1891.
Calliandra haematostoma pubescens Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 263. 1900.
Calliandra hacmatomma pubescens Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. 59; 6. 1919.
A much-branched shrub, 3 m. high or less, the twigs sparingly pilose or glabrous. Stipular spines acicular; petioles short; leaflets 3-9 pairs, oblong to obovate, 3-7 mm. long, obtuse or mucronate, glabrous or pubescent, strongly fewnerved; peduncles mostly pubescent, usually shorter than the leaves, commonly clustered toward the ends of the branches; calyx striate, glabrous or pubescent, about 2 mm. long; corolla silky-pubescent, 5-7 mm. long; stamens red, 1-2 cm. long, their tube included; legume pubescent, 5-8 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide.
Type locality; Santo Domingo.
Distribution: Bahamas; Cuba (according to Bentham); Santo Domingo; Porto Rico; St. Thomas.

Perennial, Shrubs, Nodules present, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems 1-2 m tall, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules green, triangulate to lanceolate or foliaceous, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Stipules spinose or bristles, 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 axillary, 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 red, Stamens numerous, more than 10, Stamens monadelp hous, 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 hairy, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seed with elliptical line or depression, pleurogram, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

Calliandra haematomma is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae. Calliandra pilosa is a synonym of C. haematomma var. glabrata.