Melicope homedeboense 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.15856178
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treatment provided by	PhytoKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Melicope homedeboense Appelhans & W. L. Wagner
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

6. Melicope homedeboense Appelhans & W. L. Wagner nom. nov.

Comptonella glabra T. G. Hartley View in CoL , Adansonia 4: 399. 1983.

Type material.

New Caledonia: Taom, Mt. Homédeboa, 800–900 m, 16 Oct. 1969, MacKee 20961 (holotype P [ P 00543991!]; isotype P [ P 00062001!]).

Note.

The specific epithet glabra is pre-empted in Melicope . Melicope homedeboense is only known from its type locality on Mt. Homédeboa in maquis vegetation on serpentine soil.