Dubouzetia is a genus of about eleven species known to science, growing from shrubs up to large trees, in Papuasia and Australasia and constituting part of the plant family Elaeocarpaceae.
They grow naturally in New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Moluccas, and in Australia in the Northern Territory and north-eastern Queensland.
Some species grow from understorey trees up to large trees in the natural habitats of rainforests, some species grow up to smaller shrubs in drier forests and in Australia two rare species occur, only known from sandstone rocky outcrops.
In Australia, the very restricted north-eastern Queensland endemic species D. saxatilis has official recognition of its risk of extinction in the wild by the Queensland state government's official "vulnerable" species conservation status.
Naming and classification In 1861 European science formally named and described this genus and its New Caledonia type species D. campanulata, authored by the French botanists Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart & Jean Antoine Arthur Gris.
Many species' formal names and descriptions were published since that time, together with a few revisions of the genus or parts of it.
Species Dubouzetia acuminata – New Caledonia endemic Dubouzetia australiensis – Northern Territory endemic, Australia Dubouzetia campanulata – New Caledonia endemic Dubouzetia caudiculata syn.: D. leionema – New Caledonia endemic Dubouzetia confusa – New Caledonia endemic Dubouzetia dentata – Seram Island, Moluccas endemic Dubouzetia elegans – New Guinea, New Caledonia var. elegans, syn.: D. parviflora – New Caledonia endemic var. novoguineensis , syn.: D. novoguineensis – New Guinea Dubouzetia galorei – New Guinea endemic Dubouzetia guillauminii – New Caledonia endemic Dubouzetia kairoi – New Guinea endemic Dubouzetia saxatilis - north-eastern Qld endemic, Australia
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