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Definition of Genus Calliandra
1. Noun. Genus of pinnate-leaved shrubs and small trees of tropical and subtropical North and South America and India and West Africa.
Group relationships: Mimosoideae, Subfamily Mimosoideae
Member holonyms: Calliandra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Calliandra
Literary usage of Genus Calliandra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia by Joseph Theophilus Singewald, Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"genus Calliandra BENTHAM Calliandra obliqua ENGELHARDT PLATE IV. Calliandra obliqua
Engelhardt, Sitz. Naturw. Gesell. Isis in Dresden, 1894, Abh. i, p. ..."
2. The Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1840)
"... more or less monadelphous at the base, amongst which A. tetragona and probably
some others enter into my genus Calliandra, defined below, ..."
3. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1846)
"Beskr. Fl. Guin. p. 322, belongs evidently to this genus. CALLIANDRA, Lond.
Journ v. 3, p. 93 to 112. ..."
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