Melicope rostrata (Hillebr.) Appelhans, K.R. Wood & W.L. Wagner, 2017

Appelhans, Marc S., Wood, Kenneth R. & Wagner, Warren L., 2017, Reduction of the Hawaiian genus Platydesma into Melicope section Pelea (Rutaceae) and notes on the monophyly of the section, PhytoKeys 91, pp. 125-137 : 131

Melicope rostrata (Hillebr.) Appelhans, K.R. Wood & W.L. Wagner comb. nov. Fig. 3A, B

Platydesma rostrata Hillebr., Fl. Hawaiian Isl. 72. 1888.

Note.

At the time Hillebrand described this species there was a single specimen known, the type. When Rock brought fragments from B back to BISH the label information was not well transcribed, but all have printed labels indicating they were from the B collection. There were no other collections in the B herbarium so despite the lack of information this must be a fragment of the holotype.

Type.

Kaua‘i: V. Knudsen 68 (holotype: B-destroyed, fragment BISH-581794 [BISH1016395, specimen!]).

Figures

Figure 3. A, B Melicope rostrata, flower (field images of Appelhans et al. MA 683, BISH, GOET), fruit (Wood and DeMotta 14490, US, and Flynn 4626, US) C Melicope cornuta var. decurrens flower (field images by Sebastian Marquez and Dave Fahrenwald in the Wai'anae Mountains) D Melicope cornuta var. cornuta fruit (field images by Joel Lau in Nui, Ko'olau Mountains).