Calliandra haematomma(Bertero ex DC.) Benth.

red powderpuff

WFO wfo-0000187036 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 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 haematomma, photographed by Robin White
fig. a Robin White, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-17 / obs. 198468519
Calliandra haematomma, photographed by Robin White
fig. b Robin White, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198468655
Calliandra haematomma, photographed by Robin White
fig. c Robin White, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198468574

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Calliandra haematomma is native: Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico CubaDominican RepublicHaitiJamaicaPuerto Rico BahamasLeeward Is.
Native distribution of Calliandra haematomma, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE

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 31 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.

  • Acacia haematoma DC.
  • Acacia haematomma Bertero ex DC.
  • Acacia haematostoma Bertero ex Spreng.
  • Acacia pilosa Bertero ex DC.
  • Anneslia colletioides (Griseb.) Britton
  • Anneslia haematomma (DC.) Britton
  • Anneslia haematostoma (Bertero ex Spreng.) Britton
  • Anneslia minutifolia (Urb.) Britton & Rose
  • Anneslia pilosa (Bertero ex DC.) Britton & Rose
  • Calliandra colletioides Griseb.
  • Calliandra colletioides subsp. gonavensis (Urb. & Ekman) Bässler
  • Calliandra colletioides var. gonavensis Urb. & Ekman
  • Calliandra colletioides var. gonavensis Bassler
  • Calliandra haemamtostoma var. minutifolia Urb.
  • Calliandra haematomma var. genuina Urb.
  • Calliandra haematomma var. minutifolia J.F.Macbr.
  • Calliandra haematomma var. minutifolia (Urb.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Calliandra haematomma var. pubescens (Urb.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Calliandra haematostoma (Bertero ex Spreng.) Urb.
  • Calliandra haematostoma var. genuina Urb.
  • Calliandra haematostoma var. minutifolia Urb.
  • Calliandra haematostoma var. pubescens Urb.
  • Calliandra locoensis R.G.García & Kolterman
  • Calliandra minutifolia (Urb.) Urb.

and 7 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.