Melicope rubra (Lauterb. & K.Schum.) T.G.Hartley

Tree to 7 m high. Trichomes (particularly those on endocarp) mostly stellate. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole 2–7.5 cm long; terminal leaflet sessile or with petiolule to 10 mm long; terminal lamina ovate to obovate, or narrowly so, 4–15 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, obtuse to attenuate at base, acute to acuminate or subcaudate at apex. Inflorescences infrafoliar and/or cauline, 2.5–6.5 cm long. Flowers bisexual. Sepals basally connate, suborbicular to ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Petals 5–6 mm long, pink, abaxially glabrous or with sparse indumentum towards base, adaxially villous and plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4; filaments villous, especially adaxially, in proximal ¼–⅓; anthers 2–3 mm long. Disc villous or sparsely so. Gynoecium subsyncarpous, c. 9 mm long; ovary villous; ovules 2 per locule; style c. 8 mm long, pilose to villous in proximal ½–3/4; stigma punctiform or capitellate, 0.2–0.3 mm wide. Fruit a 4-loculed septicidal capsule 20–30 mm long; carpels in dehisced capsule connate in proximal ½–⅔, erect, not beaked; exocarp fleshy; endocarp pubescent, adnate. Seed attachment Type B; seeds ovoid to ellipsoid, 4–8 mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.

Grows in rainforest and wet sclerophyllous forest, near sea level to 850 m altitude. Also in New Guinea.

Plants can be grown from seed.