Melicope

Melicope
Melicope clusiifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Subfamily:	Zanthoxyloideae
Genus:	Melicope J.R.Forst. & G.Forst[1]
Species
About 230, see text
Synonyms[1]
Astorganthus Endl. Boninia Planch. Entoganum Banks ex Gaertn. Evodiella B.L.Linden Lepta Lour. Pelea A.Gray Platydesma H.Mann Tractocopevodia Raizada & K.Naray.

Melicope is a genus of about 240 species of shrubs and trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring from the Hawaiian Islands across the Pacific Ocean to tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus Melicope have simple or trifoliate leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flowers arranged in panicles, with four sepals, four petals and four or eight stamens and fruit composed of up to four follicles.