Melicytus

Melicytus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Violaceae. Hymenanthera is a synonym.^[2] It includes 19 species native to Australia, New Zealand, and the southwestern Pacific.^[1]

Melicytus
Melicytus ramiflorus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Violaceae
Subfamily:	Violoideae
Tribe:	Rinoreeae
Subtribe:	Hymenantherinae
Genus:	Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (1776)
Synonyms[1]
Hymenanthera R.Br. (1818) Solenantha G.Don (1832) Tachites Sol. ex Gaertn. (1788)

Species

19 species are accepted.^[1]

• Melicytus alpinus (Kirk) Garn.-Jones^[3] – porcupine shrub (New Zealand)^[4]
• Melicytus angustifolius (R.Br. ex DC.) Garn.-Jones^[3] (New Zealand) [pro. parte synonym of Melicytus dentatus ^[5]]
• Melicytus chathamicus (F.Muell.) Garn.-Jones^[3] – Chatham Island mahoe (Chatham Islands, New Zealand)^[6]
• Melicytus crassifolius (Hook.f.) Garn.-Jones^[3] – thick-leaved mahoe (New Zealand)^[7]
• Melicytus dentatus (R.Br. ex DC.) Molloy & Mabb. – tree violet (Australia),^[8] sometimes present in New Zealand^[9]
• Melicytus drucei Molloy & B.D.Clarkson – Druce's mahoe, Mt Egmont shrub mahoe
• Melicytus fasciger Gillespie
• Melicytus flexuosus B.P.J.Molloy & A.P.Druce
• Melicytus improcerus Heenan, Courtney & Molloy
• Melicytus lanceolatus Hook.f. – narrow-leaved mahoe
• Melicytus latifolius (Endl.) P.S.Green
• Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn. - large-leaved mahoe
• Melicytus micranthus (Hook.f.) Hook.f. – swamp mahoe
• Melicytus novae-zelandiae (A.Cunn.) P.S.Green^[3] – coastal mahoe (New Zealand)^[10]
• Melicytus obovatus (Kirk) Garn.-Jones^[3] (New Zealand)^[11]
• Melicytus orarius Heenan, de Lange, Courtney & Molloy
• Melicytus ramiflorus, J.R. & G. Forster – mahoe or whitey-wood
• Melicytus × ramilanceolatus Allan
• Melicytus samoensis (Christoph.) A.C.Sm.
• Melicytus venosus Courtney, Heenan, Molloy & de Lange