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Details for: TARS 8582,
Calliandra haematocephala
Hassk., Powderpuff
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Calliandra haematocephala
Hassk.
Top Name:
Powderpuff
Origin:
Donated – Puerto Rico, United States
Maintained:
Tropical Agriculture Research Station
Received by NPGS:
Mar 1948
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Tropical Agriculture Research Station
Distributed as: Seeds, Available: Year-round
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Calliandra haematocephala
Hassk.
Top Name:
Powderpuff
Origin:
Donated – Puerto Rico, United States
Maintained:
Tropical Agriculture Research Station
Received by NPGS:
Mar 1948
Source History
Donated
March 1948.
Puerto Rico, United States
Donor(s):
University of Puerto Rico -Mayaguez
Accession Names and Identifiers
Powderpuff
Type: Local name
Group: MISC.TARS
Narrative
Calliandra haematocephala
Hassk.
Genus:
Calliandra
Family:
Fabaceae
(alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:
Ingeae
Nomen number:
8506
Place of publication:
Retzia 1:216. 1855 (Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 10:216. 1856)
Verified:
12/08/1998
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Calliandra haematocephala
Hassk. var.
boliviana
(Britton) Barneby
(0 active accession[s])
Calliandra haematocephala
Hassk. var.
haematocephala
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
powderpuff-tree
1
Barneby, R. C.
1998. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part III.
Calliandra
. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74(3):108.
English
red powder-puff
1
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
French
pompon
2
Barneby, R. C.
1998. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part III.
Calliandra
. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74(3):108.
Spanish
bellota
2
Barneby, R. C.
1998. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part III.
Calliandra
. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74(3):108.
Swedish
pudervippa
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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