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}} | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = About 80, see text }} ''Dysoxylum'' is a flowering plant genus of trees and shrubs, constituting part of the mahogany family (Meliaceae). Botanical science has recorded about eighty species in this genus, growing widely across the regions of Malesia, the western Pacific ocean, Australia and south & south-eastern Asia; centred on the tropics between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They grow naturally in New Guinea, eastern and northern Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, SE Asia, southern China, the Indian subcontinent, the Philippines, Taiwan, and in the western Pacific Ocean their most easterly occurrences, in the Caroline Islands, New Zealand and Niue.〔〔〔 The etymology of its name ''Dysoxylum'' derives from the Greek word ‘''Dys''’ meaning "bad" referring to "ill-smelling" and ‘''Xylon''’ meaning "wood".〔〔 == Distribution == New Guinea has records of twenty eight species growing naturally, sixteen of them endemic.〔 New Caledonia has recorded nine, eight of them endemic.〔 Fiji has recorded nine, seven of them endemic.〔 In northern and eastern coastal regions of Australia fifteen recorded species grow naturally, known as "rosewoods", though they are not closely related to the true rosewoods (''Dalbergia'') which are legumes.〔 In Australia, ''Dysoxylum fraserianum'' is the original rose wood. The name rosewood was given for the odour of its freshly cut bark like a fragrance of roses.〔 The species was named ‘''fraserianum''’ after Charles Fraser, the first colonial botanist of New South Wales. Fourteen more species are reported in Australia, distributed from within New South Wales, north through the humid east coast regions to the diversity of species in the wet tropics rainforests region of north eastern Queensland, on to Cape York Peninsula, northern parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.〔〔 New Zealand has one endemic species ''D. spectabile'', while Niue (island), further east at the global eastern limit of records of the genus, has a single species, the widespread (non-endemic) ''D. mollissimum'' subsp ''molle''.〔 On the remote oceanic islands within Australia's territorial waters, Lord Howe Island has one endemic species ''D. pachyphyllum''; Norfolk Island shares the restricted, but not locally endemic, ''D. bijugum'' with New Caledonia and Fiji; and Christmas Island shares a single widespread species ''D. gaudichaudianum'' with Australia, Malesia and SE Asia.〔 In the southern half of China eleven recorded species grow naturally, one of them endemic.〔 In Sri Lanka, India and nearby Bhutan and Nepal (Indian subcontinent) large trees of this ''Dysoxylum'' genus grow naturally in forests from lowlands to mid altitude mountains. About ten to twelve recognised species grow naturally in this region. Endemic Indian species: ''D. beddomei'', ''D. binectariferum'', ''D. ficiforme'' and ''D. malabaricum''. Endemic Sri Lankan species: ''D. championii''. Species occurring in India, Sri Lanka, nearby and more widely: ''D. excelsum'', ''D. gotadhora'', ''D. grande'', ''D. mollissimum'' and ''D. pallens''.〔〔 In the Indonesian Rain Forest Area of Java, the plant species reported is ''Dysoxylum caulostachyum''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dysoxylum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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