Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Anneslia tetragona (Wilid.) Donn. Smith, Enum. PI Guat. 1: 10. 1889.
Acacia tetragona Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1069. 1806.
Mimosa quadrangularis Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 1: 72. 1810.
Acacia quadrangularis Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 2: 445. 1822.
Calliandra tetragona Benth. Journ. Bot. Hook. 2: 139. 1840.
Feuilleea tetragona Kuntze. Rev. Gen. PI. 189. 1891.
Calliandra portoricensis muUijuga M. Micheli, Bot. Gaz. 20: 285. 1895.
A shrub, 2-5 m. high, pilose or glabrate, the branches 4-angled. Stipules lanceolate, striate, 6-8 mm. long; pinnae 4-7 pairs; leaflets 15-25 pairs, oblong-linear, oblique, obtuse, 6-12 mm. long, ciliate; peduncles axillary, solitary or clustered, 4-7 cm. long; calyx 3 mm. long, glabrous; corolla 6 mm. long, glabrous; filaments white, 4 cm. long; legume 10-12 cm. long, glabrous.
Type locality: River Guarito, Caracas, Venezuela.
Distribution: Veracruz and Jalisco to Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela.
- 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
