Falcataria (I.C.Nielsen) Barneby & J.W.Grimes

Peacocksplume (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Trees, unarmed. Leaves bipinnate; stipules caducous; pinnae 6-20 pairs; leaflets numerous, subsessile, opposite. Inflorescence axillary, consisting of 2-or 3-times-branched panicles of few flowered spikes. Flowers homomorphic, sessile. Calyx broadly cam­panulate or hemispherical, 5(or 6)-toothed. Corolla sericeous; lobes as many as calyx teeth, ca. 1/4 connate into a tube. Stamens numerous. Ovary with an intrastaminal disk around base. Legume straight, broadly linear, plano-compressed, stiffly papery, narrowly winged along ventral suture, late dehiscent through both sutures. Testa hard, with pleurogram.
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Genus of 3 species native to E. Malesia to Santa Cruz Islands (Falcataria, in Plants of the World Online, accessed 4 July 2022); 1 species in Australia.
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Images

Falcataria unspecified picture

Distribution

Falcataria world distribution map, present in Australia, China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:989455-1
WFO ID wfo-4000014570
COL ID 4J94
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INPN ID 446819
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Falcataria

Lower taxons

Falcataria pullenii Falcataria toona Falcataria falcata