Didymocheton Variabilis
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''Didymocheton'' is a genus of
flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s in the family
Meliaceae Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarp ...
. It includes 41 species which range from eastern India through Indochina and southern China to
Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. It is a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical kingdom. It was first recognized as a distinct region ...
,
Papuasia Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia. It comprises th ...
, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The genus was first named by
Carl Ludwig Blume Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796 – 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist and entomologist who spent most of his professional life in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. As deputy director of agricul ...
in 1825. Most of the species currently accepted were, until recently, included in genus ''
Dysoxylum ''Dysoxylum'' is a genus of rainforest trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Meliaceae. About 34 species are recognised in the genus, distributed from India and southern China, through southeast Asia to New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and A ...
''. A genetic study published in 2021 found that ''Dysoxylum'' is
polyphyletic A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...
, and ''Didymocheton'' was revived and re-circumscribed.


Species

41 species are accepted. *'' Didymocheton aliquantulus'' –
Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...
(northwestern
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) *''
Didymocheton alliaceus ''Didymocheton alliaceus'' is a species of flowering plant in the mahogany family, Meliaceae. It is a tree native to the tropical Pacific islands, ranging from the Solomon Islands (archipelago), Solomon Islands to the Caroline Islands, Vanuatu, F ...
'' –
Caroline Islands The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the cen ...
, Fiji,
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Samoan Islands The Samoan Islands () are an archipelago covering in the central Pacific Ocean, South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and of the wider region of Oceania. Political geography, Administratively, the archipelago comprises all of the Samoa, Indep ...
,
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...
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Tonga Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...
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Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...
, and
Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (), is a French island territorial collectivity, collectivity in the Oceania, South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga t ...
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Didymocheton aneityensis ''Didymocheton'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes 41 species which range from eastern India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The ...
'' – southern Vanuatu *''
Didymocheton annae ''Didymocheton'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes 41 species which range from eastern India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The ...
'' – northwestern
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*''
Didymocheton bijugus ''Didymocheton'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes 41 species which range from eastern India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The ...
'' – Vanuatu,
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,
Norfolk Islands The Pacific Subtropical Islands is an interim Australian bioregion which includes Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Its IBRA code is PSI. Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands constitute the Norfolk Islands, a Level 3 biogeographic unit (aka botanical ...
(including
Phillip Island Phillip Island (Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung: ''Corriong'', ''Worne'' or ''Millowl'') is an Australian island about south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The island is named after Arthur Phillip, Governor Arthur P ...
) *'' Didymocheton boridianus'' – eastern New Guinea *'' Didymocheton canalensis'' – central and southeastern New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton dolichobotrys'' – Solomon Islands (
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) *''
Didymocheton fraserianus ''Didymocheton fraserianus'', commonly known as rosewood or rose mahogany, is a medium-sized to large tree native to New South Wales and Queensland. It is widely used with the purpose of street design and to provide shade in the eastern suburbs ...
'' –
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and
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*'' Didymocheton gaudichaudianus'' –
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Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...
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Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...
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Lesser Sunda Islands The Lesser Sunda Islands (, , ), now known as Nusa Tenggara Islands (, or "Southeast Islands"), are an archipelago in the Indonesian archipelago. Most of the Lesser Sunda Islands are located within the Wallacea region, except for the Bali pro ...
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Maluku Islands The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonics, Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West ...
,
Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
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Papuasia Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia. It comprises th ...
, Queensland, Samoan Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna *'' Didymocheton hornei'' – Fiji *'' Didymocheton huntii'' – Solomon Islands and Samoan Islands *''
Didymocheton kouiriensis ''Didymocheton'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes 41 species which range from eastern India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The ...
'' – northwestern and central New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton lenticellaris'' – Fiji *'' Didymocheton loureiroi'' –
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, and
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Didymocheton macranthus ''Didymocheton'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes 41 species which range from eastern India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The ...
'' – northwestern and Central New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton macrostachyus'' – New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton minutiflorus'' – southeastern New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton mollis'' – Sulawesi, Maluku Islands, New Guinea, and the
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*'' Didymocheton mollissimus'' – eastern
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and
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to
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, southern China,
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, Sumatra,
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, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, and the Philippines *''
Didymocheton muelleri ''Didymocheton muelleri'', the red bean or Miva mahogany, is a rainforest tree in the family Meliaceae. It occurs in tropical, sub-tropical and littoral rainforests in eastern Australia, from the Bellinger River in New South Wales in the south, ...
'' – Queensland *'' Didymocheton multijugus'' – Fiji *'' Didymocheton myriandrus'' – Fiji *'' Didymocheton nutans'' – Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and Maluku Islands *'' Didymocheton pachyphyllus'' –
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*'' Didymocheton pachypodus'' – central New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton papuanus'' – New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and northern and northeastern Queensland *'' Didymocheton pauciflorus'' – Philippines *'' Didymocheton pettigrewianus'' – Maluku Islands, Papuasia, and Queensland *'' Didymocheton phaeotrichus'' – central New Guinea *'' Didymocheton roseus'' – northern and central New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton rufescens'' – New Caledonia *'' Didymocheton rufus'' – Queensland and northeastern New South Wales *'' Didymocheton sessilis'' – northern and Central Maluku *'' Didymocheton setosus'' – Lesser Sunda Islands (
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), New Guinea, and northern Queensland *''
Didymocheton sparsiflorus ''Didymocheton'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Meliaceae. It includes 41 species which range from eastern India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The ...
'' – New Guinea *''
Didymocheton spectabilis Kohekohe (''Didymocheton spectabilis'') is a medium-sized tree in the Meliaceae family, native to New Zealand. It is found in lowland and coastal forests throughout most of the North Island and also occurs in the Marlborough Sounds in the no ...
'' – New Zealand *'' Didymocheton stellatopuberulus'' – New Guinea *'' Didymocheton tenuiflorus'' – Fiji *'' Didymocheton tongensis'' – Tonga ( 'Eua) *'' Didymocheton variabilis'' – Papuasia


References

{{taxonbar, from = Q87213111 Meliaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Blume Taxa described in 1825