[Taxacom] Paraserianthes falcataria or Falcataria moluccana?

[Tony Rees]

First, I am not an expert in this group, however, it looks like Falcataria
moluccana is the newer name, Paraserianthes falcataria the older one. CoL
follows ILDIS (2014) while the Plant List data has not been updated since
2013. Plants of the World Online, POWO (
http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:912943-1),
which is generally pretty up to date, has  Paraserianthes falcataria listed
as a synonym of  Falcataria moluccana.

Wikipedia has this to say: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria )

"*Falcataria moluccana <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria_moluccana>*
 had previously been classified within the genera *Adenanthera*, *Albizia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albizia>*, and *Paraserianthes
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraserianthes>* before being moved to the
new genus *Falcataria*, as the most widely distributed of the three species
in the genus.[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria#cite_note-Barneby-5>[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria#cite_note-Brown-3> This widely
cultivated timber tree is still called by the common name "albizia" in
Hawaii and elsewhere.

The two additional species in the genus *Paraserianthes
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraserianthes>* (*P. pullenii* and *P.
toona*) were identified using morphology to form the Falcataria group with *P.
falcataria* (=*Falcataria moluccana
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria_moluccana>*) by I.C. Neilsen.[6]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria#cite_note-NielsenA-6>[7]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria#cite_note-NielsenB-7> A molecular
phylogenetics study using genomic DNA
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_DNA> and chloroplast DNA
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast_DNA> sequence data of these two
species found them be closely related to *Falcataria moluccana
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria_moluccana>*. These three species
formed a well supported clade together that was distinctly different
from *Paraserianthes
lophantha <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraserianthes_lophantha>* and so
were moved to the genus *Falcataria*.[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcataria#cite_note-Brown-3>".
Reference [3] cited is  Gillian K. Brown, Daniel J. Murphy and Pauline Y.
Ladiges (2011). "Relationships of the Australo-Malesian genus
*Paraserianthes* (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) identifies the sister group of
*Acacia* sensu stricto and two biogeographical tracks". *Cladistics*. *27* (4):
380–390. doi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier>:
10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00349.x
<https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1096-0031.2011.00349.x>.

So I would be going with the POWO stated situation, as explained further in
the Wikpedia article, with  Falcataria moluccana as the current name.

With best regards,
Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees
www.irmng.org


On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 10:41, Pudji Widodo via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Dear SIrs,
>
> In Catalogue of Life: Paraserianthes falcataria is an accepted name, but
> in In theplantlist: Paraserianthes falcataria is a synonym of Falcataria
> moluccana, which one is correct? Could you explain to me please. Thank you.
>
> WIth Regards,
> Dr Pudji Widodo Fakultas Biologi, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman Jl. dr
> Soeparno 63 Purwokerto 53122, INDONESIA Phone (62) 281 638794, Fax (62) 281
> 631700, mobile:085716518425 Email: pwidodo at unsoed.ac.id
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