Calliandra brevicaulisMicheli

WFO wfo-0000164957 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Calliandra brevicaulis, photographed by E. Goossen
fig. a E. Goossen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-31 / obs. 102674391
Calliandra brevicaulis, photographed by E. Goossen
fig. b E. Goossen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102674603
Calliandra brevicaulis, photographed by E. Goossen
fig. c E. Goossen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102674699
Calliandra brevicaulis, photographed by E. Goossen
fig. d E. Goossen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102674256
Calliandra brevicaulis, photographed by E. Goossen
fig. e E. Goossen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102674513

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Calliandra brevicaulis is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay Argentina NortheastBrazil West-CentralParaguay
Native distribution of Calliandra brevicaulis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calliandra brevicaulis f. grandiflora Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis f. hirsutula Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis f. intermedia Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis f. parviflora Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis f. robusta Chodat & Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis f. roseiflora Chodat & Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis var. genuina Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis var. genuina Chodat & Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis var. puberula Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis var. pubescens Hassl.
  • Calliandra brevicaulis var. tomentosa Hassl.
  • Calliandra glabra (Chodat & Hassl.) Hassl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.