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About 150 species including in: Australia: Melicope elleryana - Corkwood Melicope octandra - Doughwood New Zealand: Melicope simplex - Poataniwha Melicope ternata - Wharangi Hawaii: Melicope adscendens - Alani Melicope balloui - Alani Melicope haupuensis - Alani Melicope knudsenii - Alani Melicope munroi - Alani Melicope ovalis - Alani Melicope pallida - Alani Melicope quadrangularis - Alani Melicope reflexa - Alani Melicope saintjohnii - Alani Melicope zahlbruckneri - Alani |
Melicope is a genus of about 150 species of shrubs and trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring from Hawaii west to tropical Asia and south to Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, they are known as Corkwood or Doughwood, and in Hawaii as Alani.
Several of the Hawaiian species - including all those listed in the box (right) - are listed as federally endangered due to habitat loss and competition from invasive non-native plants.
The temperate Asian genus Tetradium (syn. Euodia) is closely related to Melicope and sometimes included within it.
