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Commercial uses – Falcataria falcata softwood is used to make match-sticks, chopsticks, shipping pallets, and wooden boxes. The pulp is used for paper-making. [10] Plywood production and veneer based products have increasingly been an important use for these trees. [6] Traditional uses – Whole tree trunks are carved for seagoing canoes.
An alternative basionym must be sought or a new name created. The correct name is Falcataria falcata (L.) Greuter & R.Rankin. [11] The four names Adenanthera falcataria, Albizia falcataria, Paraserianthes falcataria and Falcataria falcata can each be correct given different taxonomic opinions that put the plant in each of these four genera ...
Falcataria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the monophyletic Mimosoid clade [ 1 ] [ 3 ] in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae . [ 3 ] The genus has three species previously classified in the Falcataria section of the genus Paraserianthes by I.C. Neilsen.
The delimitation of Falcataria and Pithecellobium, close relatives of Albizia, is notoriously complex, with species having been moved between the genera time and again, and this will likely continue. These include Falcataria falcata (the Moluccan albizia, formerly named Albizia moluccana), a common shade tree on tea plantations.
Falcataria gall rust fungus (Uromycladium falcatarium) is potentially specific to only one host plant, Falcataria moluccana.However, U. falcatarium is closely related to the acacia gall rust fungus U. tepperianum, which has almost 100 known hosts including plants from several tribes of Mimosoideae. [2]
Any given Group may have a different taxonomic classification, such as a subspecific name (typically a form or variety name, given in italics) after the genus and species. A Group is usually united by a distinct common trait, and often includes members of more than one species within a genus. [ 6 ]
The structures are considered to be one of the oldest ecosystems on Earth, according to NASA, representing the earliest fossil evidence for life on our planet from at least 3½ billion years ago.
Banksia falcata as figured in Plate 1455 of Edwards's Botanical Register (Volume 17, 1831). This is the type species of Hemiclidia under the name Hemiclidia baxteri, and the type species of Dryandra subg. Hemiclidia under the name Dryandra falcata. Dryandra subg. Hemiclidia is an obsolete plant taxon that encompassed material that is now ...