Melicope nervulosa Pillon & Appelhans, 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.15858111
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8A0986BF-E7E4-5C9D-A9FA-21E1C316ECBA
treatment provided by	PhytoKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Melicope nervulosa Pillon & Appelhans
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

9. Melicope nervulosa Pillon & Appelhans nom. nov.

Euodia sarcococca Baill. View in CoL , Adansonia 11: 301. 1875, as Evodia (Melicope) sarcococca .

Sarcomelicope sarcococca (Baill.) Engl. View in CoL , in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. III. iv.: 122. 1896.

Type material.

New Caledonia: Au Nord de la Conception, Feb. 1870, Balansa 2797 (holotype P [ P 00543917!]; isotypes K [K 000717520!, K 000717521!], P [ P 00543915!, P 00543916!]).

Note.

The specific epithet sarcococca is pre-empted in Melicope . Melicope sarcococca Lauterb. is currently treated as a synonym of Melicope durifolia (K. Schum.) T. G. Hartley. The epithet nervulosa refers to the finely reticulated leaf veination of this species.