Melicope pteleifolia (champ. ex Benth.) T.g.hartley

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Melicope

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, rarely scandent, 1-14 m tall, dioecious or rarely monoclinous. Young branchlets 2.5-4 mm wide in third internode. Leaves 3-foliolate (occasional leaves 1-foliolate); petiole 1.5-14 cm, glabrous to pubescent; leaflet blades ovate-elliptic, elliptic, elliptic-obovate, or narrowly so, in terminal leaflet 6-22 × 2-8 cm, glabrous or puberulent on midvein especially abaxially, apex acuminate or subcaudate. Inflorescences axillary and sometimes basal to leaves, 2-10 × 1.5-8 cm; peduncle 0.4-5 cm; larger primary branches usually spreading. Pedicel 0.6-3 mm but 1.5-6 mm in fruit, sparsely puberulent to pubescent. Sepals 0.5-1(-1.5) mm, connate at base or to ca. 1/4 their length, glabrous or outside pubescent, persistent in fruit. Petals 1.3-2(-2.5) mm, deciduous or rarely persistent in fruit. Stamens 4, in male and bisexual flowers 1.5-3(-4) mm, in female flowers 0.4-1.5 mm; filaments at least in male and bisexual flowers subulate to filiform at apex. Gynoecium in female and bisexual flowers 1-2 mm, in male flowers 0.2-0.5 mm; ovary glabrous to pubescent. Fruit follicles subglobose to ellipsoid to obovoid, (3-)3.5-7.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. Seeds subglobose to ovoid to ellipsoid, 2.5-4 mm, attachment Type B. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jul-Oct.
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A shrub or tree.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 4.5 - 11.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.3
Flower color -
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Evergreen and mixed deciduous forests and forest margins, thickets, swamp forests, open places; from near sea level to 2,300( metres, occasionally to 2,800 metres. Forest edges on hillsides and by streams.
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Evergreen and mixed deciduous forests and forest margins, thickets, swamp forests, open places; from near sea level to 2,300( metres, occasionally to 2,800 metres. Forest edges on hillsides and by streams.
It is a tropical plant. In Yunnan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Melicope pteleifolia world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Melicope pteleifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:978157-1
WFO ID wfo-0001261499
COL ID 3ZF4V
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Zanthoxylum lamarkianum Ilex lepta Euodia lepta Zanthoxylum pteleifolium Euodia pteleifolia Euodia gracilis Melicope pteleifolia Euodia triphylla var. cambodiana Euodia lepta var. cambodiana