About Dysoxylum mollissimum Blume
Didymocheton mollissimus is a tree species belonging to the mahogany family Meliaceae. Its distribution stretches from eastern India and Bangladesh through southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, to the Philippines, where it grows in lowland tropical moist forests. The species was first formally described as Trichilia mollissima by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in 1827. Its specific epithet mollissima comes from Latin, meaning 'very soft', a reference to the hairs covering its leaves. It was later reclassified and renamed Dysoxylum mollissimum Blume. A 2021 published study found that the genus Dysoxylum is polyphyletic, so this species was moved to the resurrected genus Didymocheton under the combination D. mollissimus. The former subspecies Dysoxylum mollissimum subsp. molle, which is native to areas from Sulawesi east to the Solomon Islands, is now recognized as a separate species: Didymocheton mollis.
