Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Anneslia eriophylla (Benth.) Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad Sci. 14: 32. 1894.
Calliandra eriophylla Benth. Lend. Journ. Bot. 3: 105. 1844.
Calliandra Chamaedrvs Engelm.; A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 4; 39. 1849.
Calliandra conferta Benth.; A. Gray. PI. Wright. 1: 63. 1852.
Feuilleea lexana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I: 187. 1891.
Feuilleea eriophylla Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I: 187. 1891.
A densely branched shrub, 2-3 dm. high, the slender twigs stiff, appressed-pubescent. Stipules setaceous; pirmae 1 to 7 pairs; leaflets 5 to 15 pairs, oblong or linear-oblong, 3-4 mm. long, acute or obtuse, reticulateveined or the venation obscure, more or less strigose; heads few-flowered; flowers strigose; calyx 1-1.5 mm. long; corolla 4-6 mm. long; stamens about 2 era. long, their tube short; legume 3-6 cm. long, about 5 ram. wide, densely short-pubescent.
Type LOCALITY : Chili, Puebla.
Distribution: New Mexico and Arizona to Jalisco and Puebla.
- 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
