Pterocarpus [SEP] parent taxon
Pterocarpus
Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic "Pterocarpus" clade within the Dalbergieae. Most species of "Pterocarpus" yield valuable timber traded as padauk (or padouk); other common names are mukwa or narra. "P. santalinus" also yields the most precious rosewood in China known as Zitan. The wood from the narra tree ("P. indicus") and the Burmese padauk tree ("P. macrocarpus"
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of