Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
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Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst., Char. Gen. Pl., ed. 2. 123 (1776)
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Nomenclature
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
1776
123
ICN
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
genus
Melicytus
Classification
Subordinates
- Melicytus "Blondin"
- Melicytus "Burnett"
- Melicytus "maritime"
- Melicytus "Owen"
- Melicytus "Tinline"
- Melicytus ("maritime")
- Melicytus (a) (CHR 355077; Matiri Range)
- Melicytus (Blondin)
- Melicytus (Mt. Burnett)
- Melicytus (Mt. Owen)
- Melicytus (Tinline Creek)
- Melicytus aff. "Blondin"
- Melicytus aff. alpinus (Blondin)
- Melicytus aff. alpinus (Masterton)
- Melicytus aff. alpinus (Wairarapa)
- Melicytus aff. novae-zelandiae ("maritime")
- Melicytus aff. obovatus (AK 100107; Cook Strait)
- Melicytus alpinus
- Melicytus angustifolius
- Melicytus angustifolius
- Melicytus chathamicus
- Melicytus crassifolius
- Melicytus dentatus
- Melicytus drucei
- Melicytus flexuosus
- Melicytus improcerus
- Melicytus lanceolatus
- Melicytus macrophyllus
- Melicytus micranthus
- Melicytus microphyllus
- Melicytus novae-zelandiae
- Melicytus obovatus
- Melicytus orarius
- Melicytus ramiflorus
- Melicytus venosus
- Melicytus 'Waipapa'
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Synonyms
Associations
Descriptions
Fls small, regular, perfect or unisexual, solitary or fascicled, axillary and/or on branchlets below lvs. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, or sepals united only at very base; petals 5; anthers 5, subsessile, connate, joined by membrane, which is produced above anthers into 5 triangular ± fimbriate teeth; nectariferous scale or sac dorsal. Styles 2-(3-4)-fid; fr. baccate, with (1)-2-(3-4) strophiolate seeds, endosperm plentiful. Slender to rigid shrubs; bark lenticellate; lvs alt. or fasciculate, with somewhat thickened margins and minute, fugaceous stipules. About 10 spp. of N.Z., Australia, Tasmania, Norfolk Id. The N.Z. spp. endemic, except perhaps the sp. referred to
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Plant dioec.; fls small, regular, fascicled (occ. solitary) the fascicles axillary or on branchlets below lvs; pedicels with a pair of minute bracts. Calyx 5-lobed or toothed; petals 5, spreading; anthers 5, sessile, free or united by toothed membrane; nectariferous scale or sac dorsal on anther or membrane. Ovary 1-celled; placentae 3-5, parietal; style (2)-3- 6-fid, or stigma subsessile, lobed. Berry with few black ± angled seeds. Trees or shrubs with alt., minutely stipulate lvs. Genus of 4 spp., of which M. ramiflorus extends to Norfolk, Tonga and Fiji Islands.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
2n = 64, 80
2n = 32
n = irregular
2n = 64
2n = 64
n = 32
2n = 64
2n = 64
n = 16 bivalents
2n = 32
2n = 48
n = 32
Taxonomic concepts
Hymenanthera R.Br.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
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1 January 2000
5 January 2018