Melicope ternata J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.

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

6. Melicope ternata J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. , Char. Gen. Pl. 28, tab. 28. 1775; ed. 2, 56, tab. 28. 1776.

Entoganum laevigatum Banks ex Gaertn. , Fruct. Sem. Pl. i: 331, tab. 68, fig. 6. 1788. Type: New Zealand, prope Tolago, 1768–1770, Banks & Solander s. n. (holotype BM [ BM 015145871!]; isotype US [ US 00610724!]).

Melicope ternata var. grandis Cheeseman , Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 20: 166. 1888. Type: Kermadec Group, Sunday Island, Aug. 1887, Cheeseman s. n. (holotype AK [ AK 229826!, AK 229827!, AK 5029!, holotype mounted on three sheets]; isotype K [K 000717402!]).

Type material.

New Zealand: s. d., J. R. & G. Forster s. n. (lectotype, designated by Hartley 2001, pg. 91: K [K 000717403!]); additional potential original material ( Nicolson and Fosberg 2003): New Zealand, s. d., W. Anderson s. n. ( BM); New Zealand, s. d., Forster? s. n. ( LINN [ LINN-HS 676-1!]); New Zealand, s. d., Forster s. n. (S); New Zealand, s. d., Forster? s. n. (S); Insulis Maris Pacifici, s. d., A. Sparrman s. n. ( UPS [UPS-T 9207 (V- 009207)]. Note: Hartley annotated the Kew specimen as an isotype, but he noted ( Hartley 2001) that he had only seen a single specimen, so that this has to be the lectotype specimen.

Note.

Melicope ternata J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. is the type species of the genus.