Goniocheton arborescensBlume

Mossman Mahogany

WFO wfo-0000706378 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. a Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-03-29 / obs. 185161794
Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. b Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 185161741
Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142523285
Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. d Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 185161735
Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142523377
Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 142523467
Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. g Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 185161758
Goniocheton arborescens, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. h Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 185161769

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Goniocheton arborescens is native: Taiwan, Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland, Vanuatu TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueensland Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.Vanuatu
Native distribution of Goniocheton arborescens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA
Vanuatu VAN PACIFIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 25 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aglaia halmaheirae Miq.
  • Aglaia macrophylla Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Alliaria arborescens Kuntze
  • Alliaria halmaheirae (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Alliaria kunthiana (A.Juss.) Kuntze
  • Alliaria maingayi (Hiern) Kuntze
  • Alliaria nernstii Kuntze
  • Dysoxylum arborescens (Blume) Miq.
  • Dysoxylum arborescens f. ceramica Miq.
  • Dysoxylum arborescens f. timorense Miq.
  • Dysoxylum forsythianum Warb.
  • Dysoxylum gjellerupii C.DC.
  • Dysoxylum halmaheirae (Miq.) C.DC.
  • Dysoxylum insulare Pierre
  • Dysoxylum kunthianum (A.Juss.) Miq.
  • Dysoxylum maingayi Hiern
  • Dysoxylum nernstii F.Muell.
  • Dysoxylum novohebridanum C.DC.
  • Dysoxylum rubrum Merr.
  • Dysoxylum sibuyanense Elmer
  • Epicharis kunthiana A.Juss.
  • Goniocheton insularis Pierre
  • Hartighsea acuminata Miq.
  • Hartighsea sumatrana Miq.

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.