Melicope lactea var. poissonii (Guillaumin) Appelhans & W. L. Wagner, 2025

Appelhans, Marc S., Pillon, Yohan, Gotty, Karine & Wagner, Warren L., 2025, Towards a monophyletic Melicope (Rutaceae): Phylogenetic placement of Dutailliopsis and other New Caledonian genera, and an updated infrageneric classification of Melicope, PhytoKeys 259, pp. 263-300 : 263-300

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.259.139246
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15856180
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/15E379D8-7F0F-5C68-94F5-C0E4D9FBF14D
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scientific name	Melicope lactea var. poissonii (Guillaumin) Appelhans & W. L. Wagner
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

7.2. Melicope lactea var. poissonii (Guillaumin) Appelhans & W. L. Wagner comb. nov.

Dutaillyea poissonii Guillaumin View in CoL , Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 85: 300. 1938.

Comptonella lactea (Baker f.) T. G. Hartley var. poissonii (Guillaumin) T. G. Hartley View in CoL , Adansonia 4: 409. 1983.

Type material. New Caledonia:

s. d., Pancher 275 (= Vieillard 2454) (lectotype, designated here: P [ P 00543990!]; isolectotypes MEL [ MEL 68395!], NY [ NY 00399955!], P [ P 00606571!, P 00606572!, P 00606573!]).

Note.

P 00543990 is designated as the lectotype because it is the only specimen with precise locality information. The locality “ Escarpement du Caugui ” as written on the label is identical to the locality mentioned in the protologue (Mt. Koghi).

Abbreviations

P	Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants
MEL	Museo Entomologico de Leon
NY	William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden