Melanolepis

Melanolepis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Chrozophoreae
Subtribe: Doryxylinae
Genus: Melanolepis
Rchb.f. & Zoll.
Type species
Melanolepis multiglandulosa
(Reinw. ex Blume) Rchb.f. & Zoll.

Melanolepis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1856.[1][2] It is native to Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and some islands of the western Pacific.[3][4][5]

Species[3]
  1. Melanolepis multiglandulosa (Reinw. ex Blume) Rchb. & Zoll - Nansei-shoto, Mariana Islands, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Maluku, Sulawesi, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan
  2. Melanolepis vitifolia (Kuntze) Gagnep. - Vietnam, Cambodia

References

  1. ↑ Zollinger, Heinrich. 1856. Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 1(4): 22.
  2. ↑ Tropicos
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 240 墨鳞 mo lin Melanolepis multiglandulosa (Reinwardt ex Blume) H. G. Reichenbach & Zollinger, Acta Soc. Regiae Sci. Indo-Neêrl. 1(4): 22. 1856., Croton multiglandulosus Reinwardt ex Blume, Catalogus, 105. 1823; Mallotus multiglandulosus (Reinwardt ex Blume) Hurusawa