# Falcataria > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Falcataria > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Falcataria.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria > Source revision: 1340717518 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Starr 070215-4478 Falcataria moluccana.jpg |image_caption = ''[Falcataria moluccana](/source/Falcataria_moluccana)'' |taxon = Falcataria |authority = (I.C.Nielsen) Barneby & J.W.Grimes (1996){{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}} |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = *''[Falcataria falcata](/source/Falcataria_falcata)'' {{small|(L.) Greuter & R.Rankin}} *''[Falcataria pullenii](/source/Falcataria_pullenii)'' {{small|(Verdc.) Gill.K.Br., D.J.Murphy & Ladiges}} *''[Falcataria toona](/source/Falcataria_toona)'' {{small|(F.M.Bailey) Gill.K.Br., D.J.Murphy & Ladiges}} |subdivision_ref = [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](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)''. Retrieved 24 August 2023. }} thumb|Japanese container made of Falcata '''''Falcataria''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the family [Fabaceae](/source/Fabaceae). It belongs to the monophyletic [Mimosoid clade](/source/Mimosoideae) in the subfamily [Caesalpinioideae](/source/Caesalpinioideae). The genus has three species previously classified in the ''Falcataria'' section of the genus ''[Paraserianthes](/source/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.{{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 }} ==Species== *''[Falcataria falcata](/source/Falcataria_falcata)'' (formerly ''Falcataria moluccana'') (Miq.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes{{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}} (Native to [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea), [Maluku Islands](/source/Maluku_Islands), the [Solomon Islands](/source/Solomon_Islands), and the [Bismarck Archipelago](/source/Bismarck_Archipelago) in [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea)) *''[Falcataria pullenii](/source/Falcataria_pullenii)'' (Verdc.) G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges (Native to [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea)) *''[Falcataria toona](/source/Falcataria_toona)'' (Bailey), G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges (Native to [Australia](/source/Australia)) ==Taxonomy== ''Falcataria falcata'' had previously been classified within the genera ''Adenanthera'', ''[Albizia](/source/Albizia)'', and ''[Paraserianthes](/source/Paraserianthes)'' before being moved to the new genus ''Falcataria'', as the most widely distributed of the three species in the genus.{{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}} 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](/source/Paraserianthes)'' (''P. pullenii'' and ''P. toona'') were identified using morphology to form the Falcataria group with ''P. falcataria'' (=''[Falcataria moluccana](/source/Falcataria_moluccana)'') by I.C. Neilsen.{{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}}{{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}} A molecular phylogenetics study using [genomic DNA](/source/genomic_DNA) and [chloroplast DNA](/source/chloroplast_DNA) sequence data of these two species found them be closely related to ''[Falcataria moluccana](/source/Falcataria_moluccana)''. These three species formed a well supported clade together that was distinctly different from ''[Paraserianthes lophantha](/source/Paraserianthes_lophantha)'' and so were moved to the genus ''Falcataria''. *''[Falcataria pullenii](/source/Falcataria_pullenii)'' (Verdc.) G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges = ''Paraserianthes pullenii'' (Verdc.) I.C. Nielsen *''[Falcataria toona](/source/Falcataria_toona)'' (Bailey), G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges = ''Paraserianthes toona'' (F.M. Bailey) I.C. Nielsen ==References== {{Reflist|refs= {{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](/source/Taxon_(journal)) |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=44–77 |doi=10.12705/661.3 |doi-access=free|hdl=10568/90658 |hdl-access=free }} }} ==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Falcataria|''Falcataria''}} *{{Wikispecies-inline}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q537607}} {{Authority control}} 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 {{Mimosoideae-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Falcataria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria?action=history)). 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