{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Starr 070215-4478 Falcataria moluccana.jpg |image_caption = ''Falcataria moluccana'' |taxon = Falcataria |authority = (I.C.Nielsen) Barneby & J.W.Grimes (1996)<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?17707 |title=''Falcataria'' (I. C. Nielsen) Barneby & J. W. Grimes |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=1999-03-05 |access-date=2010-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605011826/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?17707 |archive-date=2011-06-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = *''Falcataria falcata'' {{small|(L.) Greuter & R.Rankin}} *''Falcataria pullenii'' {{small|(Verdc.) Gill.K.Br., D.J.Murphy & Ladiges}} *''Falcataria toona'' {{small|(F.M.Bailey) Gill.K.Br., D.J.Murphy & Ladiges}} |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:989455-1 ''Falcataria'' (I.C.Nielsen) Barneby & J.W.Grimes]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 24 August 2023.</ref> }} thumb|Japanese container made of Falcata '''''Falcataria''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the monophyletic Mimosoid clade<ref name="GRIN"/><ref name="6subfamilies"/> in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.<ref name="6subfamilies"/> The genus has three species previously classified in the ''Falcataria'' section of the genus ''Paraserianthes'' by I.C. Neilsen. The distribution of these closely related species within the genus ''Falcataria'' links the wet tropics of north-east Australia to New Guinea, the Moluccas, Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands east of Wallace's line similar to other plant taxa from the region.<ref name="Brown">{{cite journal |author1=Gillian K. Brown |author2=Daniel J. Murphy |author3=Pauline Y. Ladiges |year=2011 |title=Relationships of the Australo-Malesian genus ''Paraserianthes'' (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) identifies the sister group of ''Acacia'' sensu stricto and two biogeographical tracks. |journal=Cladistics |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=380–390 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00349.x |pmid=34875795 |s2cid=85416700|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Species== *''Falcataria falcata'' (formerly ''Falcataria moluccana'') <small>(Miq.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes</small><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?17707 |title=Species Records of ''Falcataria'' |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2010-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015042547/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?17707 |archive-date=2008-10-15 |url-status=dead}}</ref> (Native to New Guinea, Maluku Islands, the Solomon Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea) *''Falcataria pullenii'' <small>(Verdc.) G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges</small> (Native to Papua New Guinea)<ref name="Brown" /> *''Falcataria toona'' <small>(Bailey), G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges</small> (Native to Australia)<ref name="Brown" />
==Taxonomy== ''Falcataria falcata'' had previously been classified within the genera ''Adenanthera'', ''Albizia'', and ''Paraserianthes'' before being moved to the new genus ''Falcataria'', as the most widely distributed of the three species in the genus.<ref name="Barneby">{{cite journal |author1=R.C. Barneby |author2=J.W. Grimes |year=1996 |title=Silk tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimoseae of the Americas. Part I. ''Abarema'', ''Albizia'' and allies. |journal=Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden |volume=74 |pages=1–292}}</ref><ref name="Brown" /> This widely cultivated timber tree is still called by the common name "albizia" in Hawaii and elsewhere.
The two additional species in the genus ''Paraserianthes'' (''P. pullenii'' and ''P. toona'') were identified using morphology to form the Falcataria group with ''P. falcataria'' (=''Falcataria moluccana'') by I.C. Neilsen.<ref name="NielsenA">{{cite journal |author1=I.C. Nielsen |author2=P. Guinet |author3=T. Baretta-Kuipers |year=1983 |title=Studies in the Malesian, Australian and Pacific Ingeae (Leguminosae – Mimosoideae): the genera ''Archidendropsis'', ''Wallaceodendron'', ''Paraserianthes'', ''Pararchidendron'' and ''Serianthes'' (part 1). |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/276287 |journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Section B, Adansonia |series=4e Série |volume=5 |pages=303–329}}</ref><ref name="NielsenB">{{cite journal |author1=I.C. Nielsen |author2=P. Guinet |author3=T. Baretta-Kuipers |year=1983 |title=Studies in the Malesian, Australian and Pacific Ingeae (Leguminosae – Mimosoideae): the genera ''Archidendropsis'', ''Wallaceodendron'', ''Paraserianthes'', ''Pararchidendron'' and ''Serianthes'' (part 2). |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/276288 |journal=Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Section B, Adansonia |series=4e Série |volume=5 |pages=335–360}}</ref> A molecular phylogenetics study using genomic DNA and chloroplast DNA sequence data of these two species found them be closely related to ''Falcataria moluccana''. These three species formed a well supported clade together that was distinctly different from ''Paraserianthes lophantha'' and so were moved to the genus ''Falcataria''.<ref name="Brown" /> *''Falcataria pullenii'' <small>(Verdc.) G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges</small><ref name="Brown" /> = ''Paraserianthes pullenii'' <small>(Verdc.) I.C. Nielsen</small><ref name="NielsenA" /><ref name="NielsenB" /> *''Falcataria toona'' <small>(Bailey), G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges</small><ref name="Brown" /> = ''Paraserianthes toona'' <small>(F.M. Bailey) I.C. Nielsen</small><ref name="NielsenA" /><ref name="NielsenB" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="6subfamilies">{{cite journal |author=The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). |year=2017 |title=A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny |journal=Taxon |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=44–77 |doi=10.12705/661.3 |doi-access=free|hdl=10568/90658 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> }}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Falcataria|''Falcataria''}} *{{Wikispecies-inline}}
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Category:Mimosoideae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Taxa named by James Walter Grimes Category:Taxa named by Rupert Charles Barneby Category:Flora of the Australasian realm
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