''Doona gardneri'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

in the family

Dipterocarpaceae Dipterocarpaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India ...

. It is a tree

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

. It is commonly known as red doon in English and ''rath dun'' (රත් දුන්) in Sinhalese. It is a large tree native to lower montane rain forest, where it prefers deep, well-drained soils.Gunatilleke, C. V. S., I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, Ashton, P. M. S., & Ashton, P. S. (1998). Seedling Growth of Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae) Across an Elevational Range in Southwest Sri Lanka. ''Journal of Tropical Ecology'', 14(2), 231–245. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2560007 It grows in disjunct subpopulations at Ensalwatta,

Adam's Peak Adam's Peak is a conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka.Capper, Daniel (2022), ''Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World,'' Cornell University Press. It is well known for the ''Sri Pada'' (; ), a rock formati ...

, and Loolkandura at about 1,000 meters elevation.

Uses

Its timber is used for heavy construction.

References

gardneri Endemic flora of Sri Lanka Trees of Sri Lanka Vulnerable flora of Asia Plants described in 1958 Taxa named by George Henry Kendrick Thwaites Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub