''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae.

Uses

Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar (which translates to "the mother of medicines") which is used as a panacea by

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Species

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Phaleria acuminata ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a ...

'' — Fiji, American Samoa, Tonga, Western Samoa * ''

Phaleria angustifolia ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a ...

'' — Fiji * ''

Phaleria biflora ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a ...

'' – Qld, Australia endemic * ''

Phaleria capitata ''Phaleria capitata'' grows as a shrub or small tree up to tall, with a stem diameter of up to . Twigs are reddish brown. Inflorescences usually bear five flowers. The fruits are roundish, up to long. Habitat is forest from sea-level to altit ...

'' – salagong-gubat (Sri Lanka, Palau, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas, New Guinea) * ''

Phaleria chermsideana ''Phaleria chermsideana'' known as the scrub daphne grows as a shrub or small tree. Usually seen on the margins of rainforest in eastern Australia, north from Dorrigo, New South Wales to tropical Queensland. References chermsideana Plants ...

'' – Qld, NSW, Australia * ''

Phaleria clerodendron ''Phaleria clerodendron'', commonly known as scented daphne, scented phaleria or rosy apple, is an evergreen tree or tall shrub in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is Endemism , endemic to the rainforests of north-eastern Queensland, Australia. Desc ...

'' – scented daphne (Qld, Australia) * ''

Phaleria coccinea ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' – New Guinea, New Britain, Moluccas, Philippines * ''

Phaleria disperma ''Phaleria disperma'' is an ornamental flowering evergreen plant native to the southwestern Pacific, where it is found in Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Isl ...

'' – Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna * ''

Phaleria elegans ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' – New Guinea endemic * ''

Phaleria glabra ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — Fiji, Tonga * ''

Phaleria ixoroides ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — Fiji * ''

Phaleria lanceolata ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — Fiji * ''

Phaleria longituba ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — New Guinea * ''

Phaleria macrocarpa ''Phaleria macrocarpa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is commonly called buah mahkota dewa, God's crown, pau and is a dense evergreen tree, indigenous to Indonesia. It is found in tropical areas of New Guinea ...

'' (Syn.: ''P. papuana'') – mahkota dewa (New Guinea, NT, Australia) * ''

Phaleria montana ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — Fiji * ''

Phaleria nisidai ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a ...

'' — delal a kar (Palau, New Britain, New Guinea) * ''

Phaleria octandra ''Phaleria octandra'' is a flowering plant in the Thymelaeaceae family. It is a shrub found in tropical Australia. It is also naturally found in the New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island cou ...

'' – dwarf phaleria (New Guinea, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Islands (Timor, Flores, Lombok, Bali, etc.), Java, NT, Qld, Australia) * ''

Phaleria okapensis ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — New Guinea (Papau) * ''

Phaleria pentecostalis ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — Vanuatu * ''

Phaleria perrottetiana ''Phaleria perrottetiana'' is a plant in the family Thymelaeaceae. Description ''Phaleria perrottetiana'' grows as a shrub or small tree up to tall. The twigs are dark brown. Inflorescences bear 20 or more flowers. The fruits are ovoid, up to ...

'' – New Guinea, Moluccas, Borneo, Philippines * ''

Phaleria pilistyla ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — New Guinea (Papua) * ''

Phaleria pubiflora ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a kar ...

'' — Fiji * ''

Phaleria pulchra ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a ...

'' — Fiji * ''

Phaleria sogerensis ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a ...

'' – New Guinea * ''

Phaleria stevensiana ''Phaleria'' is flowering plant genus of about 20-25 species in the family Thymelaeaceae. Uses Some species, like the mahkota dewa are known to produce agarwood. Many others have long histories of use in traditional medicine like delal a ...

'' — Sulawesi

Taxonomy and phylogeny

Phylogenetic analysis shows that ''Phalerias closest related genus is '' Dais'', 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. The next closest related genera is a clade containing ''

Gnidia ''Gnidia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is distributed in Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, India, and Sri Lanka; more than half of all the species are endemic to South Africa.Rogers, Z. S. (2006)A new species of Malag ...

'', '' Stephanodaphne'', '' Dirca'', '' Ovidia'', '' Peddiea'', ''

Pimelea ''Pimelea'', commonly known as rice flowers, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae. There are about 150 species, including 110 in Australia and thirty six in New Zealand. Description Plants in the genus ''Pimelea'' are he ...

'', '' Struthiola'', ''

Lachnaea ''Lachnaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Thymelaeaceae, found in the Cape Floristic Region of southern South Africa. They tend to be small ericoid shrubs. Species Currently accepted species include: *''Lachnaea alpina'' Meisn. ...

'', '' Passerina'', and '' Passerina''.

References

Malvales genera {{Thymelaeaceae-stub