as an anticancer compound. Rohitukine is an important precursor for the semi-synthetic derivative, flavopiridol (C21H20Cl NO5). In India, apart from its economic importance for building and furniture making, it is an important ingredient in Ayurvedic Medicine as many species have curative qualities taken independtly or as an ingredient of a medicinal mixture. Some of the uses in Ayurveda reported are; Wood decoction of D. malabaricum to cure rheumatism and its oil is used to cure eye and ear diseases; a few species are used to cure inflammation, cardio-disorder, CNS disorder and also tumor. In Indian tradition and culture oil is extracted from the seeds Dysoxylum malabaricum, which has wide beneficial application. Species The majority of this listing draws from the 1995 Flora Malesiana genus treatment by David Mabberley, with further sourcing from his 2008 Flora of China genus treatment. Then the Dec 2010 Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants identification system and the carefully cross-checked species from the older 1985 Flora Vitiensis (Fiji) add a minority number of different species. Dysoxylum acutangulum subsp. acutangulum – Peninsular Thailand, Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Philippines subsp. foveolatum – New Guinea, Solomon Is., Queensland, NT, N. Australia; Malesia: Sumatra, Java, Flores, Timor, Moluccas Dysoxylum alatum – New Guinea Dysoxylum aliquantulum – Fiji endemic Dysoxylum alliaceum – New Guinea, Solomon Is., coastal central QLD to the wet tropics and Cape York; throughout Malesia; Peninsular Thailand, Andaman Is., SE Asia Dysoxylum aneityense – Vanuatu Dysoxylum angustifolium – "restricted to the river systems on the east of the Malay Peninsula" Dysoxylum annae – NW lowland New Guinea Dysoxylum arborescens , Mossman mahogany – New Guinea, Pacific Is. incl. Solomon Is., Vanuatu; Queensland wet tropics, Cape York; throughout Malesia incl. Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra; Andaman Is., Nicobar Is., Taiwan Dysoxylum beddomei – India Dysoxylum bijugum ; Synonyms: D. patersoni, D. patersonianum – Fiji, New Caledonia, Norfolk Is. Dysoxylum binectariferum – India to Vietnam Dysoxylum boridianum – New Guinea. Only Boridi village, Port Moresby district, central PNG Dysoxylum brachybotrys – Malesia: Borneo, Philippines Dysoxylum brassii – New Guinea Dysoxylum brevipaniculum – central eastern New Guinea Dysoxylum canalense – New Caledonia endemic Dysoxylum carolinae – Vietnam; Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo Dysoxylum cauliflorum – Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand; Malesia: Sumatra, Bangka, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Philippines, Burma Dysoxylum championii – Sri Lanka Dysoxylum crassum – Borneo Dysoxylum cumingianum – Taiwan, Philippines, Sulawesi, Bali, Moluccas, Malaysia Dysoxylum cyrtobotryum – SE Asia to Malesia: Nicobar Is.,