Melicope lydgatei

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Overview

Critically Endangered

Common Names

Description

Family Rutaceae

The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles, and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Pelea apoda St. John
2. Pelea descendens St. John
3. Pelea lydgatei Hbd.
4. Pelea parvifolia var. apoda (St. John) B. C. Stone
5. Pelea parvifolia var. sessilis (Levl.) B. C. Stone
6. Pelea semiternata St. John

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Taxon 38:121. 1989

Name verified on 29-Jul-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Melicope

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 260 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

M. aberrans · M. accedens · M. acronychioides · M. acuminata · M. adscendens (Auwahi Melicope) · M. aequata · M. affinis · M. alba · M. albiflora · M. anisata (Mokihana Pelea) · M. auriculata · M. australasica · M. awadan · M. bakeri · M. balankazo · M. balloui (Ballou's Melicope) · M. barbigera (Uahi-A-Pele) · M. beccarii · M. belahe · M. bonwickii · M. borbonica · M. borbonica var. acuminata · M. boweriana · M. brachiata · M. bracteata · M. brassii · M. broadbentiana · M. buennemeijeri · M. burmahia · M. burttiana · M. calycina · M. capillacea · M. carrii · M. chapelieri · M. chapelieri var. sessilis · M. chooreechillum · M. christophersenii (Christophersen's Pelea) · M. chunii · M. cinerea (Manena) · M. clathrata · M. clemensiae · M. clusiifolia (Clusia-Leaf Pelea) · M. confusa · M. contermina · M. coodeana · M. coriacea · M. corneri · M. cruciata (Cross-Bearing Pelea) · M. cucullata · M. cucullata var. robustior · M. curranii · M. degeneri (Kokee Stream Melicope) · M. denhamii · M. densiflora · M. dielsii · M. discolor · M. diversifolia · M. doormani-montis · M. dubia · M. elleryana (Pink-Flowered Corkwood) · M. elliptica (Waianae Pelea) · M. emarginata · M. erromangensis · M. erythrococca · M. euneura · M. fareana · M. fatuhivensis · M. feddei (Hiiaka) · M. fellii · M. flaviflora · M. floribunda · M. fulva · M. gjellerupii · M. glabella · M. glaberrima · M. glabra · M. glabriflora · M. glomerata · M. grandifolia · M. grisea · M. grisea var. crassifolia · M. halconensis · M. haleakalae (Haleakala Melicope) · M. haupuensis (Haupa Mountain Melicope) · M. hawaiensis (Mokihana Kukae Moa) · M. hayesii · M. helferi · M. heterophylla · M. hivaoaensis · M. homeophylla · M. homoeophylla · M. hookeri · M. hosakae (Honolulu Melicope) · M. iboensis · M. incana · M. indica · M. inopinata · M. irifica · M. jonesii · M. jugosa

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Further Reading

• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants - on-line resource. (US Fish & Wildl List)
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1999. Hawaiian vascular plants at risk:1999. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 60:48.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 29, 2008)
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2664779
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-196032
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:946515-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 320448
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 196032
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDRUT0A0Z0
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: Q1Z0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: MELY
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 49845

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