Zapoteca caracasana (Jacq.) H. M. Hern.

Anneslia caracasana (Jacq.) Britton & Rose
Mimosa caracasana Jacq. Coll. 4: 142. 1790.
Acacia caracasana Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1068. 1806.
Calliandra caracasana Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 30: 543. 1875.
Feuilleea caracasana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 187. 1891.
A slender shrub, 1-3 m. high, the twigs, leaf-rachis and peduncles sparingly pubescent or glabrate. Petioles very slender, 2-4 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, striate, acute, 4-6 mm. long; pinnae 3-5 pairs, or the upper leaves sometimes represented only by the stipules; leaflets 12-30 pairs, linear, linear-oblong or the upper pair oblong-obovate, more or less pubescent and ciliate, obtuse or acutish, mostly 6-8 mm. long and about 1 mm. wide, or the upper and lower pairs shorter; peduncles filiform, solitary or clustered, 1-5 cm. long; heads small, several-flowered; calyx puberulent, about 0.5 mm. long; corolla about 2 mm. long; stamens pink or purple, about 10 mm. long, their tube included; legume 6-8 cm. long, about 8 mm. wide, pubescent or, perhaps, sometimes glabrous.
Type locality: Caracas, Venezuela.
Distribution: Haiti (according to Urban) ; Venezuela; Colombia; Ecuador.