''Doona'' 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
Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India ...
. It includes ten species of trees endemic to
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
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Species
Ten species are accepted.[
*'' Doona affinis''
*'' Doona congestiflora''
*'']Doona cordifolia
''Doona cordifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sri Lanka
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*''Doona disticha
''Doona disticha'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a small tree endemic to Sri Lanka. It is native to the remaining lowland rain forests of southwestern Sri Lanka. It is threatened by overharvesting for timb ...
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*''Doona gardneri
''Doona gardneri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree Endemism, endemic to Sri Lanka. It is commonly known as red doon in English and ''rath dun'' (රත් දුන්) in Sinhalese language, Sinhalese ...
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*''Doona macrophylla
''Doona macrophylla'', synonym ''Shorea megistophylla'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sri Lanka
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*''Doona ovalifolia
''Doona ovalifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island c ...
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*''Doona trapezifolia
''Doona trapezifolia'', known as තිනිය දුන් (tiniya dun) in Sinhala, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sri Lanka
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*''Doona venulosa
''Doona venulosa'' is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in So ...
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*''Doona zeylanica
''Shorea zeylanica'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sri Lanka
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References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q87182231
Dipterocarpaceae genera
Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
Taxa described in 1851
Taxa named by George Henry Kendrick Thwaites