''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. It belongs to the
mimosoid clade of the subfamily
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'' 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.
Now ''P. pullenii''
(Verdc.) I.C. Nielsen = ''
Falcataria pullenii''
(Verdc.) G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges;
and ''P. toona''
(F.M. Bailey) I.C. Nielsen = ''
Falcataria toona''
(Bailey), G.K. Brown, D.J. Murphy & P.Y. Ladiges.
''Paraserianthes'' section remained in the genus with only ''
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 ...
''.
References
Mimosoids
Monotypic Fabaceae genera
{{Mimosoideae-stub