Melicope bonwickii (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley

Tree to 40 m high. Trichomes simple. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 3–9.5 cm long; terminal leaflet sessile, obovate, 10–30 cm long, 5–15 cm wide, acute to attenuate at base, acuminate at apex. Inflorescences infrafoliar, 3.5–10 cm long. Flowers bisexual. Sepals basally connate, suborbicular, 1.5–2 mm long. Petals c. 4.5 mm long, pink, abaxially glabrous or sparsely puberulous, adaxially villous and plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4; filaments glabrous; anthers 1.5–2 mm long. Disc pubescent to villous. Gynoecium subapocarpous, 5–10 mm long; ovary villous; ovules 2 per locule; style 4–9 mm long, glabrous; stigma punctiform or capitellate, 0.2–0.3 mm wide. Fruit of 1–4 follicles  4–6 mm long, not beaked; exocarp subwoody; endocarp adnate, glabrous. Seed attachment Type B; seeds subglobose to ellipsoid or subhemispherical, 3–4.5 mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.

Dense primary forest, and also in the more open areas of secondary growth; at elevations from sea level to 750 metres.

In the Tanimbar Islands (Moluccas), M. bonwickii is said to be used to treat dysentery.

Can be grown by seedlings.