Surianaceae [SEP] parent taxon
Surianaceae
The Surianaceae are a family of plants in the order Fabales with five genera and eight known species. It has an unusual distribution: the genus "Recchia" is native to Mexico, and the sole member of "Suriana", "S. maritima", is a coastal plant with a pantropical distribution; and the remaining three genera are endemic to Australia.
They range in form from small shrubs to tall trees.
Systematics.
Modern molecular phylogenetics suggest the following relationships:
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