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Taxon: Falcataria moluccana (Miq.) Barneby & J. W. Grimes

Genus:

Falcataria

Family:

Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Caesalpinioideae

Tribe:

Ingeae

Nomen number:

405168

Place of publication:

Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74(1):255. 1996

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

01-geg.-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

(=) Adenanthera falcataria L.
(=) Albizia falcata auct.
(=) Albizia falcataria (L.) Fosberg
Basionym: Albizia moluccana Miq.
(=) Paraserianthes falcataria (L.) I. C. Nielsen

Common names:

batai (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
bataiwood (Source: Pl Book) - English
Moluccan-sau (Source: Trop Leg) - English
albízia (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
bataí (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
mara (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
parasiante (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

Environmental: agroforestry (fide Mem NYBG 74:256. 1996) revegetator (fide Mem NYBG 74:256. 1996) soil improver (fide Mem NYBG 74:256. 1996)
Materials: wood; wood

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Tropical

PAPUASIA: Indonesia, [Papua Barat] Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
MALESIA: Indonesia [Maluku]

Cultivated

(also cult. in tropics)

References:

Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature
Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future

Check other web resources for Falcataria moluccana (Miq.) Barneby & J. W. Grimes :

ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://agb.amvmt.lt/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=405168. Accessed 22 spalio 2026.