Wallaceodendron

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Speciesbox |image = Gardenology.org-IMG 1971 hunt08sep.jpg |image_caption = ''Wallaceodendron celebicum'' in greenhouse at Huntington Gardens | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author= Energy Development Corporation (EDC) |date=2024 |title= ''Wallaceodendron celebicum'' |volume=2024 |article-number= e.T33262A67804529 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T33262A67804529.en |access-date=May 28, 2025}}</ref> |genus = Wallaceodendron |parent_authority = Koord. |species = celebicum |authority = Koord. |synonyms = {{species list | Pithecellobium williamsii | Elmer}} |synonyms_ref =<ref name = powo/> }}

'''''Wallaceodendron celebicum''''' is species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a tree native to the Philippines and Sulawesi. Typical habitat is tropical coastal and inland rain forest from sea level to 850 meters elevation.<ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23802-1 ''Wallaceodendron'' Koord.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 23 September 2023.</ref> It is the sole species in genus '''''Wallaceodendron'''''. The genus belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.<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>

Timber from the tree, known as ''banúyo'' (ironwood) or derham mahogany, is used for furniture, cabinet making, and flooring.<ref name = powo/>

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Category:Mimosoideae Category:Monotypic Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of the Philippines Category:Flora of Sulawesi Category:Plants described in 1898 Category:Taxa named by Sijfert Hendrik Koorders