# Doryxylon

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Doryxylon spinosum Blanco2.463.jpg
|image_caption = ''Doryxylon spinosum''<ref>1880 plate by Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas</ref> 
|display_parents = 4
|genus = Doryxylon
|parent_authority = [Zoll.](/source/Heinrich_Zollinger)
|species = spinosum
|authority = [Zoll.](/source/Heinrich_Zollinger)
|synonyms_ref = <ref name=u/>
|synonyms = 
*''Mercadoa'' <small>[Náves](/source/Andr%C3%A9s_N%C3%A1ves)</small>
*''Sumbavia'' <small>[Baill.](/source/Henri_Ernest_Baillon)</small>
*''Adelia acidoton'' <small>Blanco, illegitimate homonym</small>
*''Sumbavia rottleroides'' <small>Baill.</small>
*''Mercadoa mandalojonensis'' <small>Náves</small> 
}}

'''''Doryxylon''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic) [plant](/source/plant) [genus](/source/genus) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Euphorbiaceae](/source/Euphorbiaceae) first described as a genus in 1857.<ref>Zollinger, Heinrich. 1857.  Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië 14(ser. 3. 4): 1, 172</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40035327 Tropicos]</ref> The sole species is '''''Doryxylon spinosum'''''. It is found on the Island of [Luzon](/source/Luzon) in the [Philippines](/source/Philippines) and in the [Lesser Sunda Islands](/source/Lesser_Sunda_Islands) of southern [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia).<ref name=u>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=63701 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref>

;Formerly included<ref name=u/>
''Doryxylon albicans'' <small>(Blume) N.P.Balakr.</small> syn of ''[Sumbaviopsis albicans](/source/Sumbaviopsis_albicans)'' <small>(Blume) J.J.Sm.</small>

==References==
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Category:Chrozophoreae
Category:Monotypic Euphorbiaceae genera
Category:Flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands
Category:Flora of Luzon
Category:Taxa named by Heinrich Zollinger

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