[Taxacom] Paraserianthes falcataria or Falcataria moluccana?

[Tony Rees]

By the way, before it was raised to genus level, Falcataria was previously
a section of Paraserianthes, namely Paraserianthes sect. Falcataria I.
Nielsen in I. Nielsen, 1984.

- Tony


On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 16:14, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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