Calliandra calothyrsus Meisn

Calliandra calothyrsus Meisn. 
(Kaliandra Merah)



Picture 12. Calliandra calothyrsus
(Hidayat & Abdurrahman, 2017)


Classification
Kingdom         : Plantae
Divisi               : Magnoliophyta
Class                : Magnoliopsida
Order               : Fabales
Family             : Fabaceae
Genus              : Calliandra
Species            : Calliandra houstoniana var. calothyrsus

Other Scientific Names
·         Anneslia acapulcensis Britton & Rose
·         Anneslia calothyrsus (Meisn.) Donn.-Sm.
·         Anneslia confusa (Sprague & Riley) Britton & Rose
·         Anneslia similis (Sprague & Riley) Britton & Rose
·         Calliandra acapulcensis (Britton & Rose) Standley
·         Calliandra calothyrsus Meissner
·         Calliandra confusa Sprague & Riley
·         Calliandra similis Sprague & Riley
·         Feuilleea calothyrsa Kuntze

Description
Calliandra houstoniana var. calothyrsus is a small, thornless, often multistemmed shrub or small tree. Under optimum conditions it can attain a height of 12 m and a trunk diameter of 30 cm, but its average height is 5-6 m and diameter 20 cm. Leafstalks of larger leaves 8-15 cm, their longer interpinnal segments 6-10 (-12) mm; rachis of longer pinnae (4) 5-8.5 cm; longer leaflets linear acute 4-9(-10) × 0.65-1.9 mm, either straight or gently incurved. Inflorescence-axes either glabrous, or puberulent, or pilose, but the peduncles at most thinly so; peduncles (3-)4-12(-15) mm; pedicels 2-4.5 mm ; perianth commonly glabrous, rarely micropuberulent; calyx 1.6-2.3 x 2.2-3.2 mm, the teeth 0.25-0.6 mm; corolla (6-)6.5-9.5(-11.5) mm, the lobes as long as tube or separating to rim of stemonozone; androecium 40-52-merous, usually crimson throughout, occasionally pallid proximally and pink distally. Pods in profile 8-11 (-12) × 1.1-1.6 cm, commonly glabrous or micropuberulent, less often strigulose or even pilose (Cabi, 2019).

Spot Character
Umbelliform inflorescences with red long stamens

Distribution 
Tropical America and Asia

Benefit
Leaves for cattle fodder

Location

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