Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earrings: Calliandra. Mem (74)3 intermountain Part XIII of The Botany

Part XIII of The Botany of the Guayana Highland contains four contributions:---Gentianaceae

People of many cultures have long relied on plants for their medicinal value

This title is monograph 51 in the Flora Neotropica series

and Paolo De Luca

Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earrings: Calliandra. Mem (74)3 intermountain Part XIII of The BotanyThis monograph is the third installment of a three part study of the synandrous Mimosaceae occurring in the Americas, that is, those genera of the tribe Ingeae ever referred to Pithecellobium Martius. In the first comprehensive treatment since 1875, Part III covers the genus Calliandra in an alphataxonomic revision comprising some 130 species. As redefined, the genus is endemic to the Americas, extending from New Mexico to Chile, the so called