''Paraserianthes'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the family

Fabaceae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenc ...

. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily

Caesalpinioideae Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name ''Caesalpinia''. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily. The Caesalpinioideae ...

Taxonomy

''Paraserianthes'' includes only one species: * ''

Paraserianthes lophantha ''Paraserianthes lophantha'' (syn. ''Albizia lophantha''), the Cape Leeuwin wattle, Bicol wattle, Cape wattle, crested wattle or plume albizia, is a fast-growing tree with creamy-yellow, bottlebrush like flowers. It is a small tree (uppermost hei ...

'' (Willd.) I.C.Nielsen. This species includes two subspecies: ''P. lophantha'' subsp. ''lophantha'' in southwestern Australia, and ''P. lophantha'' subsp. ''montana'' (Jungh.) I.C. Nielsen in high elevation sites in Western Indonesia (Sumatara, Java and Western Nusa Tenggara Province).Brown, G.K., Murphy, D.J., Ladiges, P.Y., 2011. Relationships of the Australo-Malesian genus Paraserianthes (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) identifies the sister group of Acacia sensu stricto and two biogeographical tracks. Cladistics 27: 380-390. The genus ''Paraserianthes'' originally comprised four species, divided into two sections based on morphological traits by Nielsen.Nielsen, I., Guinet, P., Baretta-Kuipers, T., 1983. Studies in the Malesian, Australian and Pacific Ingeae (Leguminosae - Mimosoideae): the genera Archidendropsis, Wallaceodendron, Paraserianthes, Parachidendron and Serianthes (part 1). Bull. Mus. natl. Hist. nat. Paris, 4, ser. 5, sect. B, Adansonia 3, 303-329.Nielsen, I., Guinet, P., Baretta-Kuipers, T., 1983. Studies in the Malesian, Australian and Pacific Ingeae (Leguminosae - Mimosoideae): the genera Archidendropsis, Wallaceodendron, Paraserianthes, Parachidendron and Serianthes (part 2). Bull. Mus. natl. Hist. nat. Paris, 4, ser. 5, sect. B, Adansonia 4, 335-360. Section ''Paraserianthes'' included ''P. lophantha'' with two recognized subspecies, and section ''Falcataria'' included three species (''P. falcataria, P. pullenii,'' and ''P. toona''). Based on morphology ''P. falcataria'' (L.) I.C.Nielsen was moved to the genus ''

Falcataria ''Falcataria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the monophyletic Mimosoideae, Mimosoid clade in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. The genus has three species previously classified in the ''Falcataria'' section of ...

'' by Barneby and Grimes,Barneby, R.C., Grimes, J.W., 1996. Silk tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimoseae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia and allies. Mem. New York Botanical Garden 74: 1-292 and renamed ''

Falcataria moluccana ''Falcataria falcata'' (syns. ''Albizia falcata'', ''Falcataria moluccana'' and ''Paraserianthes falcataria''), commonly known as the Moluccan albizia, is a species of fast-growing tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the Maluku Islands, ...

'' (Miq.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes. Brown ''et al.'' used biogeographical, morphological and molecular studies to completely separate of these sections into two genera as ''Paraserianthes sensu'' Nielsen was

paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...

. Now ''P. pullenii'' (Verdc.) I.C. Nielsen = ''

Falcataria pullenii ''Falcataria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the monophyletic Mimosoid clade in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. The genus has three species previously classified in the ''Falcataria'' section of the genus ' ...

'' (Verdc.) G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges; and ''P. toona'' (F.M. Bailey) I.C. Nielsen = ''

Falcataria toona ''Falcataria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the monophyletic Mimosoid clade in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. The genus has three species previously classified in the ''Falcataria'' section of the genus ' ...

'' (Bailey), G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges. ''Paraserianthes'' section remained in the genus with only ''

''.

References

Mimosoids Monotypic Fabaceae genera {{Mimosoideae-stub