{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2026}} {{Hatnote|This article covers the genus of plants. For the genus of beetles, see Phaleria (beetle).}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Hortus Botanicus Leiden - Phaleria capitata Jack (Sumatra).JPG |image_caption = ''Phaleria capitata'' |taxon = Phaleria |authority = Jack<ref name=APNI/> |synonyms = *''Drimyspermum'' {{small|Reinw.}} *''Leucosmia'' {{small|Benth.}} *''Oreodendron'' {{small|C.T.White}} *''Plutonia'' {{small|Noronha, nom. nud.}} *''Pseudais'' {{small|Decne.}} | synonyms_ref = {{R|POWO}} }}
'''''Phaleria''''' is flowering plant genus of about 25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae, which range from Sri Lanka to Malesia, Papuasia, northern and eastern Australia, and islands of the western Pacific.<ref name = POWO/>
==Uses== ''Phaleria macrocarpa'' is known to produce agarwood.{{r|lee2018}} ''Phaleria nisidai'', locally known in Palau as ''delal a kar'', 'the mother of medicines', is used as a panacea by Palauans.{{r|kulakowski2015}}
==Species== {{As of|2026|04}}, Plants of the World Online accepts the following 25 species:{{R|POWO}} {{div col}} * ''Phaleria acuminata'' {{au|(A. Gray) Gilg}} – Fiji, American Samoa, Tonga, Western Samoa * ''Phaleria angustifolia'' {{au|A. C. Sm.}} – Fiji * ''Phaleria biflora'' {{Au|(C.T.White) Herber}} – Queensland * ''Phaleria capitata'' {{Au|Jack}} – Sri Lanka, Palau, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas, New Guinea * ''Phaleria chermsideana'' {{Au|(F.M.Bailey) C.T.White}} – Queensland, New South Wales * ''Phaleria clerodendron'' {{Au|(F.Muell.) Benth.}} – Queensland * ''Phaleria coccinea'' {{Au|(Gaudich.) F.Muell.}} – New Guinea, New Britain, Moluccas, Philippines * ''Phaleria disperma'' {{Au|(G.Forst) Baill.}} – Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna * ''Phaleria elegans'' {{Au|L.M.Perry}} – New Guinea endemic * ''Phaleria glabra'' {{au|(Turrill) Domke}} – Fiji, Tonga * ''Phaleria ixoroides'' {{au|Fosberg}} – Fiji * ''Phaleria lanceolata'' {{au|(A. Gray) Gilg}} – Fiji * ''Phaleria longituba'' {{au|P. F. Stevens}} – New Guinea * ''Phaleria macrocarpa'' {{Au|(Scheff.) Boerl.}} – New Guinea, Northern Territory * ''Phaleria montana'' {{au|(Seem.) Gilg}} – Fiji * ''Phaleria nisidae'' {{Au|Kanehira}} – Palau, New Britain, New Guinea * ''Phaleria octandra'' {{Au|(L.) Baill.}} – New Guinea, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Islands, Java, Northern Territory, Queensland * ''Phaleria okapensis'' {{au|P. F. Stevens}} – New Guinea (Papua) * ''Phaleria pentecostalis'' {{au|Leandri}} – Vanuatu * ''Phaleria perrottetiana'' {{Au|(Decne.) Fern.-Vill.}} – New Guinea, Moluccas, Borneo, Philippines * ''Phaleria pilistyla'' {{au|P. F. Stevens}} – New Guinea (Papua) * ''Phaleria pubiflora'' {{au|(A. Gray) Gilg}} – Fiji * ''Phaleria pulchra'' {{au|Gillespie}} – Fiji * ''Phaleria sogerensis'' {{Au|S.Moore}} – New Guinea * ''Phaleria stevensiana'' {{au|Z. S. Rogers}} – Sulawesi {{div col end}}
==Taxonomy and phylogeny== Phylogenetic analysis shows that ''Phaleria'''s closest related genus is ''Dais'',{{cn|date=April 2026}} both of which are members of the ''Thymelaeoideae'' subfamily of the ''Thymelaeaceae'' family which contains 941 species in 48 different genera according to the Catalogue of Life.{{r|COL}} The next closest related genera is a clade containing ''Gnidia'', ''Stephanodaphne'', ''Dirca'', ''Ovidia'', ''Peddiea'', ''Pimelea'', ''Struthiola'', ''Lachnaea'', ''Passerina'', and ''Passerina''.{{cn|date=April 2026}}
==References== {{Reflist|27em|refs= <ref name="APNI">{{cite web |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/80000 |title=''Phaleria'' Jack |website=Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) |publisher=Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Australian Government |access-date=24 April 2026}}</ref>
<ref name=POWO>{{cite web |title=''Phaleria'' Jack |url=https://POWO.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39303-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref>
<ref name="COL">{{cite web |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6MPW |title=''Phaleria'' Jack |website=Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-04-18 XR) |publisher=Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands |year=2026 |access-date=24 April 2026}}</ref>
<ref name=kulakowski2015>{{cite journal|title=Traditional preparation of ''Phaleria nisidai'', a Palauan tea, reduces exposure to toxic daphnane-type diterpene esters while maintaining immunomodulatory activity |doi=10.1016/j.jep.2015.06.023 |journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology |year=2015 |volume=173 |pages=273–279 |pmid=26102551 |last1=Kulakowski |first1=Daniel |last2=Kitalong |first2=Christopher |last3=Negrin |first3=Adam |last4=Tadao |first4=Van-Ray |last5=Balick |first5=Michael J. |last6=Kennelly |first6=Edward J. |doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name=lee2018>{{cite journal |title=Phylogenetic Relatedness of Several Agarwood-Producing Taxa (Thymelaeaceae) from Indonesia |journal=Tropical Life Sciences Research |year=2018 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=13–28 |last1=Yih Lee |first1=Shiou |last2=Turjaman |first2=Maman |last3=Mohamed |first3=Rozi |doi=10.21315/tlsr2018.29.2.2 |pmid=30112138 |pmc=6072731}}</ref> }}
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Category:Phaleria Category:Thymelaeaceae genera Category:Taxa described in 1822 Category:Taxa named by William Jack (botanist)