Epicharis Blume, Bijdr.Fl. Ned.Ind.

Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, TAXON 70 (6), pp. 1248-1272 : 1264

III. Epicharis Blume, Bijdr.Fl. Ned.Ind. :166.1825

≡ Dysoxylum sect. Epicharis (Blume) Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 4: 7. 1868 – Type (designated here by F. Hauenschild & D.J. Mabberley): E. densiflora Blume.

= Piptosaccos Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 31: 415. 1858 – Type: Piptosaccos hypophyllantha Turcz. = Epicharis parasitica (Osbeck) Mabb.

Distribution. – Seven species from Indochina, Taiwan and Philippines to Fiji.

Notes. – The type was chosen from the species examined molecularly in this paper. The generic name may well have been taken from that of the title of a play in production in Jakarta (Batavia), Java, at the time, according to contemporary newspapers (Bataviasche Koloniale Courant, in which newspaper Blume published new plant-names such as Rafflesia patma Blume [ Rafflesiaceae ; Mabberley, 1999]). Epicharis (d. 65 CE) was a remarkable woman, a leading member of a conspiracy against the Roman Emperor, Nero; she was tortured and committed suicide rather than betray her friends.