Melicope trifoliata (Baill.) 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.15856222
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scientific name	Melicope trifoliata (Baill.) Appelhans & W. L. Wagner
status	comb. nov.

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10. Melicope trifoliata (Baill.) Appelhans & W. L. Wagner comb. nov.

Picrella trifoliata Baill. View in CoL , Adansonia 10: 150, plate X. 1871.

Helietta trifoliata (Baill.) Mabb. View in CoL , Plant-book, corr. repr.: 707. 1989.

Euodia pseudo-obtusifolia Guillaumin View in CoL , Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 26: 176. 1920. Type: New Caledonia, s. d., Le Rat & Le Rat 732 (holotype P [ P 00543998!]).

Zieridium pseudo-obtusifolium (Guillaumin) Guillaumin View in CoL , Bull. Soc. Bot. France 85: 299. 1938. Type: Based on Euodia pseudo-obtusifolia Guillaumin View in CoL

Zieridium melicopifolium Guillaumin View in CoL , Bull. Soc. Bot. France 85: 299. 1938. Type: New Caledonia, 1868–1870, Balansa 1799 (holotype P [ P 00543903!, P 00543904!, mounted on two sheets]). Note: Hartley and Mabberley (2003) mentioned an additional isotype at K, but it could not be located (pers. comm. Alison Moore, 6 March 2024).

Type material.

France: cult. Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Aug. 1871, Anon. s. n. (holotype P-Baill.!); cult. Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Oct. 1871, Anon. s. n. (topotype P [ P 00259629!]). Note: The origin of this cultivated plant from the Botanical Garden in Paris is reported to be Mexico (on sheet: “ Mexique? ”). This is a mistake since the species in endemic to New Caledonia (see also Hartley and Mabberley 2003).

10.1. Melicope trifoliata var. trifoliata (Baill.) Appelhans & W. L. Wagner