Cathormion

Cathormion is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains a single species, Cathormion umbellatum, a shrub or tree which ranges from India to Indochina, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku, New Guinea, and northern Australia.

Cathormion
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Cathormion
(Benth.) Hassk. (1855)
Species:
C. umbellatum
Binomial name
Cathormion umbellatum
(Vahl) Kosterm. (1954)
Subspecies[1]
  • Cathormion umbellatum subsp. moniliforme (DC.) Brummitt
  • Cathormion umbellatum subsp. umbellatum
Synonyms[1]
  • Feuilleea umbellata (Vahl) Kuntze (1891)
  • Inga umbellata (Vahl) Willd. (1806)
  • Mimosa umbellata Vahl (1791)
  • Pithecellobium umbellatum (Vahl) Benth. (1844)

It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]

Two subspecies are accepted:[1]

  • Cathormion umbellatum subsp. moniliforme (DC.) Brummitt – Thailand, Sumatra, Java, Maluku, Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, and northern Australia
  • Cathormion umbellatum subsp. umbellatum – India, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

References
  1. Cathormion umbellatum (Vahl) Kosterm. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  2. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
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