Melicope mantellii Buchanan

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.15856193
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scientific name	Melicope mantellii Buchanan
status

Treatment

3. Melicope mantellii Buchanan View in CoL , Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 3: 212. 1871.

Melicope × tersimplex Allan View in CoL , Genetica 9: 145. 1927.

Melicope ternata var. mantellii (Buchanan) Kirk View in CoL , Forest Fl. New Zealand: 119, tab. 67. 1889.

Type material.

New Zealand: s. d., Buchanan s. n. (lectotype, designated here, WELT [ WELT. SP 029403!]); s. d., Buchanan s. n. (syntype WELT [ WELT. SP 029749!]). Note: The two specimens bear no precise label information and no dates, but both have been collected by Buchanan. We selected SP 029403 as the lectotype because it is from Buchanan’s herbarium, while the other specimen belongs to the T. Kirk herbarium.

Note.

Melicope mantellii is likely a hybrid of M. simplex and M. ternata ( Cheeseman 1906; Cockayne and Allan 1934; Fujita 1961; see also Hartley 2001). We follow Hartley (2001) and treat it tentatively as a separate species, because genetic or phylogenomic analyses that support the hybrid origin of M. mantellii are lacking. It is listed as a hybrid in the Flora of New Zealand ( Allan 1961).