Editing Delonix (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the bean family Fabaceae}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Delonex regia.jpg
|image_caption = Royal poinciana (''[[Delonix regia]]'')
|taxon = Delonix
|authority = [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz|Raf.]] (1837)<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?3479 |title=Genus: ''Delonix'' Raf. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=1999-03-05 |access-date=2011-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227173421/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?3479 |archive-date=2014-02-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|type_species = ''[[Delonix regia]]''
|type_species_authority = ([[Wenceslas Bojer|Bojer]] ex [[William Jackson Hooker|Hook.]]) [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz|Raf.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tropicos.org/Name/40023189 |title=''Delonix'' Raf. |work=TROPICOS |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=2009-10-22}}</ref>
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
|synonyms =
*''Aprevalia'' <small>[[Henri Ernest Baillon|Baill.]] (1884)</small>
*''Lemuropisum'' {{small|H.Perrier (1938 publ. 1939)}}
|synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30339041-2 ''Delonix'' Raf.] ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 1 August 2023.</ref>
}}

'''''Delonix''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Fabaceae]], [[Family (biology)|subfamily]] [[Caesalpinioideae]].<ref name="6subfamilies">{{cite journal | author = The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). | year = 2017 | title = A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny | journal = [[Taxon (journal)|Taxon]] | volume = 66 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–77 | doi = 10.12705/661.3| doi-access = free | hdl = 10568/90658 | hdl-access = free }}</ref>  It contains [[tree]]s that are native to [[Madagascar]] and [[East Africa]]. By far the best known species is the Royal Poinciana (''[[Delonix regia|D. regia]]'').

The name of the genus is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words δηλος (''delos''), meaning "evident," and ονυξ (''onyx''), meaning "claw," referring to the [[petal]]s.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |title=The Names of Plants |first=David |last=Gledhill |edition=4 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-86645-3 |year=2008 |page=137}}</ref> The common name, '''poinciana''', comes from a former genus of the same name in which the members of the current genus ''Delonix'' were classified along with plants now placed in the genus ''[[Caesalpinia]]''.