Melicope J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Melicope (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, evergreen, unarmed. Trichomes simple, fasciculate, or stellate. Leaves opposite, trifoliolate or simple. Inflorescences paniculate, axillary, infrafoliar, or cauline. Flowers bisexual, male, or female, 4-merous. Sepals usually glabrous adaxially (sometimes puberulous adaxially in M. elleryana), persistent in fruit. Petals narrowly imbricate to valvate. Stamens (rudimentary in female flowers) 8 or 4; filaments linear or sublinear. Gynoecium (rudimentary in male flowers) a 4-carpelled, subapocarpous, subsyncarpous, or syncarpous pistil; ovules 1 or 2 per locule; style apical or subapical. Fruit of 1–4 follicles connate at or towards base (abortive carpels persistent) or a 4-loculed capsule with carpels connate at least in proximal 1/2; ventral endocarp lacking; remaining endocarp cartilaginous, adnate or rarely separate (M. vitiflora). Seeds solitary or in pairs, usually ±enlarged in chalazal region, remaining attached in or sometimes tardily released from dehisced fruit; testa with thick sclerotesta, sarcotesta, and shiny black pellicle; endosperm copious. Embryo straight or slightly curved; cotyledons ± flattened, elliptic or broadly so; hypocotyl terminal, considerably narrower than cotyledons.
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Shrubs, trees, rarely scandent, evergreen, usually dioecious or sometimes monoclinous or andromonoecious. Leaves opposite [or whorled], digitately 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate. Inflorescences axillary or basal to leaves, cymulose to thyrsiform [or reduced to solitary flowers]. Sepals 4, connate at base or to nearly their full length. Petals 4, valvate or narrowly imbricate in bud. Stamens 4 or 8 [or 4-8], rudimentary in female flowers. Disk pulvinate to annular to cup-shaped. Gynoecium 4-carpelled, rudimentary or lacking in male flowers; ovaries connate at base, otherwise contiguous [or connate up to their full length]; ovules [1 or] 2 per locule; style apical or subapical, of 4 contiguous, coherent, or connate stylar elements; stigma usually punctiform, capitellate, or capitate. Fruit of 1-4 basally connate follicles [or grading to a syncarpous 4-loculed loculicidal capsule]; exocarp dry to fleshy; endocarp cartilaginous. Seeds remaining attached in dehisced fruit; seed coat with thick inner layer of dense black sclerenchyma and spongy outer layer bounded externally by a shiny black pellicle; endosperm copious; embryo straight or slightly curved; cotyledons elliptic, flattened; hypocotyl superior.
Fls 4-merous, perfect to unisexual, in cymes or panicles, occ. solitary. Sepals minute, petals with inflexed apices; stamens 8, at base of disk, filaments subulate. Ovary 4-lobed and 4-loculed; ovules us. 2 per locule; styles 4, often coalescent; stigma 4-lobed. Cocci 4, each 1-seeded; testa shining, endocarp cartilaginous. Trees or shrubs with gland-dotted lvs. Some 20 spp. of tropical Asia to Australia, the N.Z. spp. endemic.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Distribution

Melicope world distribution map, present in Australia, China, New Zealand, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35825-1
WFO ID wfo-4000023636
COL ID 5NPV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 445974
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Synonyms

Platydesma Melicope Evodiella Boninia

Lower taxons

Melicope spathulata Melicope taveuniensis Melicope tahitensis Melicope sudestica Melicope suberosa Melicope sterrophylla Melicope seemannii Melicope steenisii Melicope sororia Melicope simplex Melicope sessilis Melicope stellulata Melicope vinkii Melicope vieillardii Melicope versteeghii Melicope tekaoensis Melicope trachycarpa Melicope timorensis Melicope pubifolia Melicope puberula Melicope pseudoanisata Melicope ponapensis Melicope segregis Melicope polyadenia Melicope petiolaris Melicope perryae Melicope perlmanii Melicope polybotrya Melicope rigoensis Melicope savaiensis Melicope sandwicensis Melicope rotundifolia Melicope quadrangularis Melicope robbinsii Melicope ridsdalei Melicope revoluta Melicope retusa Melicope reticulata Melicope reflexa Melicope ramuliflora Melicope vitiflora Melicope robusta Melicope woitapensis Melicope wawraeana Melicope wailauensis Melicope volcanica Melicope kainantuensis Melicope flaviflora Melicope feddei Melicope fatuhivensis Melicope pendula Melicope jugosa Melicope jonesii Melicope irifica Melicope inopinata Melicope indica Melicope incana Melicope improvisa Melicope idiocarpa Melicope haleakalae Melicope hosakae Melicope homoeophylla Melicope hivaoaensis Melicope hiiakae Melicope hiepkoi Melicope hayesii Melicope coodeana Melicope contermina Melicope conjugata Melicope clemensiae Melicope cinerea Melicope christophersenii Melicope celebica Melicope carrii Melicope capillacea Melicope calycina Melicope aberrans Melicope corneri Melicope erromangensis Melicope denhamii Melicope degeneri Melicope cucullata Melicope cruciata Melicope cravenii Melicope obtusifolia Melicope obscura Melicope obovata Melicope oblanceolata Melicope oahuensis Melicope kaalaensis Melicope novoguineensis Melicope nishimurae Melicope neglecta Melicope nealae Melicope mucronata Melicope monticola Melicope montana Melicope nubicola Melicope pauciflora Melicope papuana Melicope paniculata Melicope pallida Melicope pahangensis Melicope ovata Melicope ovalis Melicope orbicularis Melicope molokaiensis Melicope lauterbachii Melicope longior Melicope leptococca Melicope lamii Melicope laevis Melicope kostermansii Melicope kjellbergii Melicope kavaiensis Melicope makahae Melicope mindorensis Melicope megastigma Melicope maliliensis Melicope moluccana Melicope macropus Melicope macrophylla Melicope macgregorii Melicope lydgatei Melicope buwaldae Melicope barbigera Melicope balloui Melicope blancoi Melicope alpestris Melicope aequata Melicope adscendens Melicope broadbentiana Melicope bracteata Melicope exuta Melicope waialealae Melicope maxii Melicope pedicellata Melicope lasioneura Melicope triphylla Melicope confusa Melicope balankazo Melicope bakeri Melicope bonwickii Melicope glabra Melicope latifolia Melicope lunu-ankenda Melicope macrocarpa Melicope pachyphylla Melicope pteleifolia Melicope semecarpifolia Melicope subunifoliolata Melicope hawaiensis Melicope littoralis Melicope margaretae Melicope vatiana Melicope richii Melicope nukuhivensis Melicope micrococca Melicope elleryana Melicope trichopetala Melicope forbesii Melicope acuminata Melicope chunii Melicope glomerata Melicope viticina Melicope lucida Melicope anisata Melicope belahe Melicope chapelieri Melicope discolor Melicope fatraina Melicope floribunda Melicope madagascariensis Melicope magnifolia Melicope sambiranensis Melicope tsaratananensis Melicope accedens Melicope clusiifolia Melicope elliptica Melicope radiata Melicope peduncularis Melicope xanthoxyloides Melicope crassiramis Melicope crassifolia Melicope benguetensis Melicope trichantha Melicope grisea Melicope burmahia Melicope quadrilocularis Melicope haupuensis Melicope knudsenii Melicope mucronulata Melicope munroi Melicope saint-johnii Melicope zahlbruckneri Melicope rostrata Melicope remyi Melicope cornuta Melicope patulinervia Melicope durifolia Melicope lobocarpa Melicope aneura Melicope albiflora Melicope boweriana Melicope laxa Melicope zambalensis Melicope pulgarensis Melicope crispula Melicope rubra Melicope rhytidocarpa Melicope anomala Melicope dubia Melicope villosa Melicope pergamentacea Melicope sessilifoliola Melicope palawensis Melicope phanerophlebia Melicope pachypoda Melicope eriophylla Melicope doormani-montis Melicope schraderi Melicope euneura Melicope burttiana Melicope goilalensis Melicope glaberrima Melicope glabella Melicope fellii Melicope evansensis Melicope fulva Melicope hookeri Melicope dicksoniana Melicope borbonica Melicope sulcata Melicope peninsularis Melicope mantellii Melicope alba Melicope affinis Melicope buennemeijeri Melicope brassii