Calliandra pittieri var. pittieri

  • Title

    Calliandra pittieri var. pittieri

  • Author(s)

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Scientific Name

    Calliandra pittieri Standl. var. pittieri

  • Description

    1a. Calliandra pittieri Standley var. pittieri.  C. pittieri Standley, 1916, l.c., sens. str. — "Type...[US] 531146, collected at La Esmeralda, near Jamundí, Cauca valley, State [sic] of Cauca, Colombia, at... 1,200 meters, January, 1905, by H. Pittier (no. 951)." — Holotypus, US!; isotypus (fragm), NY!. —Anneslia pittieri Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 63. 1928.

    C. bella var. trianae Bentham, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 556. 1875. — "New Granada, Triana, Jervise, Schlim n. 783." — Lectotypus, Triana 467, K! = NY Neg. 2000; possible isotypus, Hb. Lehmann. 5367, F!. — Equated with C. pittieri by Britton & Killip, 1936: 136.

    C. lehmannii Harms, Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 90. 1921.— "Columbia: ... am oberen Rio Bagua, West- Anden von Cali, 1200-1300 m (Lehmann 5267. . .). — Campo Alegre (Langlasse no. 26 . . .)." — Lectotypus, Lehmann 5267 †B = F Neg. 1245V, isotypi, K! (= NY Neg. 1999!), F (cf. above)!, NY (fragm)!; isoparatypus, Lan- glasst 26, NY!. — Equated with C. pittieri by Britton & Killip, 1936: 136, pl. 1.

    Characterized by relatively short pinnae and lfts, as given in key to varieties, and distinguished from var. polyphylla by almost fully allopatric dispersal.

    In disturbed woodland, seasonally dry woodland, and colonial along sunny stream banks, surviving deforestation in hedges and pastures, occasionally cultivated in its native range, (800—) 1100-3000 m, locally plentiful on both slopes of Cordilleras Occidental and Central in Colombia, n. at lower elevations into e. Panama (Darien) and s. into Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, Cuenca). — Fl. intermittently through the year, new fls often coinciding with old pods. — Map 1. — Carbonero, carbonerito; pluma de yátero (Colombia); tura (Ecuador).