Melicope mucronulata

Melicope mucronulata is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States. Like other Hawaiian Melicope, this species is known as alani.^[2]

Melicope mucronulata
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Genus:	Melicope
Species:	M. mucronulata
Binomial name
Melicope mucronulata (H.St.John) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone

This plant has been known from the islands of Maui and Molokai. The Maui population was last seen in 1983,^[3] and it is probably extinct.^[1] On Molokai there are only three plants left.^[3]

The last individuals of the species are threatened by the coffee twig borer (Xylosandrus compactus) and habitat degradation by feral ungulates such as Axis deer.^[3]