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<h2 id="species">Species</h2> <p>12 species are accepted:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Image</th><th>Scientific name</th><th>Distribution</th></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_baccal/2hF6Mqp6">Delonix baccal</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Emilio_Chiovenda/fQ5whJTb">Chiov.</a>) <a href="/facts/Edmund_Gilbert_Baker/TuMBI6Dv">Baker f.</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ethiopia/LVujNp5v">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="/facts/Kenya/Y9Ko9pQu">Kenya</a>, <a href="/facts/Somalia/3wQYwIdS">Somalia</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_boiviniana/MjHKepb1">Delonix boiviniana</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Henri_Ernest_Baillon/0zqEx7h4">Baill.</a>) <a href="/facts/Ren%C3%A9_Paul_Raymond_Capuron/ntNU37AX">Capuron</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Madagascar/ez12IAcY">Madagascar</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_brachycarpa/LWNxMsIp">Delonix brachycarpa</a></i> (R.Vig.) Capuron</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_decaryi/rX7rCFnR">Delonix decaryi</a></i> (R.Vig.) Capuron</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_edulis/0laU3Foh">Delonix edulis</a></i> (H.Perrier) Babineau & Bruneau</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_elata/gL8oWfHF">Delonix elata</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Carl_Linnaeus/gy5HWkHS">L.</a>) <a href="/facts/James_Sykes_Gamble/jDJMLUKb">Gamble</a></td><td>East Africa, southern Arabia east to western India</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_floribunda/kLJDkeow">Delonix floribunda</a></i> (Baill.) Capuron</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i>Delonix leucantha</i> (R.Vig.) Du Puy, Phillipson & R.Rabev.</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_pumila/Hehc06YC">Delonix pumila</a></i> Du Puy, Phillipson & R.Rabev.</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_regia/em24TcsF">Delonix regia</a></i> (<a href="/facts/Wenceslas_Bojer/5sRFpoPm">Bojer</a> ex <a href="/facts/William_Jackson_Hooker/vFUbLV99">Hook.</a>) <a href="/facts/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque-Schmaltz/d7XBK7x5">Raf.</a></td><td>Madagascar<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_tomentosa/fxtSzCt7">Delonix tomentosa</a></i> (R.Vig.) Capuron</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Delonix_velutina/8fsBANhq">Delonix velutina</a></i> (R.Vig.) Capuron</td><td>Madagascar</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="use">Use</h2> <p>These plants (collectively known as <i>fengoky</i> or <i>fengoka</i>) release brown resin lumps that can be dissolved to make glue, or sucked as edible sweets among the <a href="/facts/Malagasy_peoples/l9xeuWbU">Malagasy</a>. Their seeds too are roasted and eaten as a snack in the south.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li> Media related to Delonix at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li> Data related to Delonix at Wikispecies</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>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. hdl:10568/90658. <a href="https://doi.org/10.12705%2F661.3" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.12705%2F661.3</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Gledhill, David (2008). The Names of Plants (4 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3. <a href="978-0-521-86645-3" target="_blank">978-0-521-86645-3</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Delonix Raf. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023. <a href="https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30339041-2" target="_blank">https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30339041-2</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Subordinate Taxa of Delonix Raf". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2009-10-22. <a href="http://tropicos.org/NameSubordinateTaxa.aspx?nameid=40023189" target="_blank">http://tropicos.org/NameSubordinateTaxa.aspx?nameid=40023189</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Puy, David J. Du; Phillipson, Peter B.; Rabevohitra, Raymond (1995). "The Genus Delonix (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae: Caesalpinieae) in Madagascar". Kew Bulletin. 50 (3): 450–1. Bibcode:1995KewBu..50..445P. doi:10.2307/4110322. JSTOR 4110322. <a href="/wiki/Kew_Bulletin" target="_blank">/wiki/Kew_Bulletin</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>