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

Tree to 40 m high. Trichomes simple. Leaves trifoliolate (occasional leaves simple); petiole 3–16 cm long; terminal leaflet with petiolule 2–30 mm long; terminal lamina elliptic to obovate, 9–20 cm long, 3.5–9 cm wide, acute to attenuate at base, acute to acuminate at apex. Inflorescences axillary, 6–20 cm long. Flowers bisexual, male, or female; plants monoclinous or dioecious. Sepals basally connate, ovate-triangular, 0.6–1 mm long. Petals 1.5–3 mm long, green to white or cream, abaxially nearly glabrous to pubescent, adaxially pubescent at least in proximal ¼ and plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4; filaments pilose or sparsely so, especially adaxially in proximal ½–⅔; anthers in bisexual and male flowers 1–1.2 mm long (0.5–0.6 mm long in female flowers). Disc glabrous or rarely sparsely pubescent. Gynoecium in female and bisexual flowers subapocarpous, 1–2 mm long (c. 0.6 mm long in male flowers); ovary pubescent or sparsely so or villous; ovules 1 or 2 per locule; style 0.6–1.5 mm long, pubescent at base; stigma capitate, 4-lobed, 0.5–0.6 mm wide. Fruit of 1–4 follicles 5–7 mm long, not beaked; exocarp subwoody; endocarp glabrous, separate. Seed attachment Type A; seeds ellipsoid to lenticular, 4–5.5 mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.

Well developed rain forests, on a variety of sites, at elevations from sea level to 1,100 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.