Sarcomelicope
| Sarcomelicope | |
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| Sarcomelicope simplicifolia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Subfamily: | Zanthoxyloideae |
| Genus: | Sarcomelicope Engl. |
Sarcomelicope is a genus of about ten species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae that are endemic to the South Pacific.
Description
Plants in the genus Sarcomelicope are shrubs to medium-sized trees with simple leaves and flowers arranged in
ovules in each carpel. The fruit is a drupe of four carpels, partly or completely fused, and the seeds are dark brown to black.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Sarcomelicope was first formally described in 1896 by Adolf Engler in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien and the type species is Sarcomelicope sarcococca.[2][3]
Species list
The following is a list of Sarcomelicope species accepted at Plants of the World Online:[4]
- Sarcomelicope argyrophylla Guillaumin (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope dogniensis Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope follicularis Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope glauca Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope leiocarpa (P.S.Green) Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope megistophylla Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope pembaiensis Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope petiolaris (A.Gray) A.C.Sm. (Fiji)
- Baill.) Engl.(New Caledonia)
- Endl.) T.G.Hartley (New South Wales, Queensland, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island)
- Sarcomelicope simplicifolia (Endl.) T.G.Hartley subsp. simplicifolia (New South Wales, Queensland, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island)
- Sarcomelicope simplicifolia subsp. neoscotica (P.S.Green) T.G.Hartley (New Caledonia)[5]
- Sarcomelicope simplicifolia (
References
- ^ Richards, P.G. "Genus Sarcomelicope". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Sarcomelicope". APNI. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ Engler, Adolf; Krause, Kurt; Pilger, Robert K.F.; Prantl, Karl (1896). Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. p. 122. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Sarcomelicope". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Sarcomelicope simplicifolia". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
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