Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Anneslia mollis (Standley) Britton & Rose
Calliandra mollis Standley. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 17: 431. 1914.
More or less herbaceous with erect or ascending villous branches. Stipules ovate, 5-7 mm. long, acute, striate, pilose; pinnae 3-6 pairs, or the upper leaves reduced to stipules only; leaflets 7-22 pairs, narrowly oblong, membranous, 8-18 mm. long, acute, appressed-pubescent on both sides; peduncles slender, axillary, 1.5-4 cm. long, villous, solitary or clustered; calyx 2 mm. long, glabrous; corolla 4 mm. long, glabrous; filaments 1.5-2 cm. long, white; legume 8 cm. long, 6-7 mm. broad, densely pilose.
Type locality: Near Nicoya, Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica.
- 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
