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|accepted_name=Delonix
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Tellur.
|place=2: 92. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|common_names=Flamboyant;flame tree;royal poinciana
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaeexcludingmimosoidclade;Delonix
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaeexcludingmimosoidclade]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Delonix]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek delos, evident, and onyx, claw, alluding to petals
|volume=Volume 11
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> unarmed. <b>Stems</b> spreading, puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, even-bipinnate; stipules present; petiolate; pinnae 11–20 pairs, opposite; leaflets 20–50[+], blade margins entire, surfaces puberulent or glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 20–25-flowered, axillary to subterminal, racemes, corymblike; bracts present, caducous. <b>Flowers</b> caesalpinioid; calyx nearly actinomorphic, valvate, lobes 5; corolla scarlet and yellow; stamens 10, declined, slightly connate basally; anthers dorsifixed. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, stipitate, compressed, straight, oblong, dehiscent on ground, woody, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 20–40, slightly compressed, oblong. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;sw Asia;e Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);introduced widely.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 11 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Delonix is a genus primarily of Madagascar, with nine species endemic there; one species is endemic to Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Somalia, and one is widespread in east Africa, Arabia, and India.</p>
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name=Delonix
|author=Neil A. Harriman†
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=Florida;sw Asia;e Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);introduced widely.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Tellur.
|publication year=1837
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_130.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaeexcludingmimosoidclade
|genus=Delonix
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