Melicope tahitensis Nadeaud

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

5. Melicope tahitensis Nadeaud , Énum. Pl. Tahiti 75. 1873.

Melicope tahitensis var. puberula Nadeaud , Énum. PI. Tahiti 76. 1873, nom. invalid.

Euodia sericea Drake , Ill. Fl. Ins. Pacif.: 15, tab. 2. 1886. Type: Society Islands, Tahiti, 1847, Vesco s. n. (holotype P [ P 00978590!, P 00978591!, holotype mounted on two sheets as indicated by the remarks “ 1 / 2 ” and “ 2 / 2 ” on the sheets]). Note: The species name Euodia sericea is not mentioned on the label, but the handwritten description and the morphology match with the description in the protologue. There is a remark “ dupl. PAP ” on the label, but a specimen could not be located at PAP (pers. comm. Tamara Maric; 16 March 2024).

Euodia nodulosa Drake , Ill. Fl. Ins. Pacif.: 17, tab. 3. 1886. Type: Society Islands, Tahiti, 1847, Vesco s. n. (holotype P [ P 00978592!]). Note: The species name Euodia nodulosa is not mentioned on the label, but the handwritten description and the morphology match with the description in the protologue.

Euodia nadeaudii Drake , Ill. Fl. Ins. Pacif.: 132. 1890.

Melicope diversifolia Guillaumin , Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris), sér. 2, 14: 287. 1942. Type: New Caledonia, Balade, 1855–60, Vieillard 295, (holotype P [ P 00543962!]; isotypes P [ P 00227568!, P 00543959!, P 00543960!, P 00543961!]). Note: Hartley (2001) notes that the type was probably collected in Tahiti instead of New Caledonia. The species does not occur on New Caledonia.

Type material.

Society Islands: Tahiti, s. d., J. Nadeaud 472 p. p. (holotype P [ P 00639236!]; isotype P [ P 00646057!]).