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Melicope cruciata

(Cross-bearing Pelea)

Overview

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Extinct

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Cross-bearing Pelea, Pilo 'ula

Description

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Family Rutaceae

The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles, and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Habit: Tree

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: A small tree thought to be taken from boggy rainforest above 1,000 m. [1].

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Pelea clusiifolia cookeana (Rock) B. C. Stone • Pelea clusiifolia dumosa (Rock) B. C. Stone • Pelea clusiifolia Gray • Pelea clusiifolia sapotifolia (Mann) B. C. Stone • Pelea clusiifolia var. auriculifolia (Gray) B. C. Stone • Pelea clusiifolia var. crassiloba B. C. Stone • Pelea clusiifolia var. cuneata St. John & Hume • Pelea clusiifolia var. dumosa (Rock) B. C. Stone • Pelea clusiifolia var. ecuneata St. John • Pelea clusiifolia var. fauriei (Levl.) St. John & Hume • Pelea clusiifolia var. pickeringii (St. John) B. C. Stone • Pelea pickeringii St. John • Pelea pickeringii var. citriodorata St. John

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Melicope

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 48 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. adscendens (Alani) · M. anisata (Mokihana) · M. balloui (Rock Pelea) · M. barbigera (Uahi-A-Pele) · M. christophersenii (Christophersen's Pelea) · M. cinerea (Manena) · M. clusiifolia (Clusia-Leaf Pelea) · M. cruciata (Cross-Bearing Pelea) · M. degeneri (Degener's Pelea) · M. elleryana (Pink Evodia) · M. elliptica (Leiohi'iaka) · M. feddei (Hiiaka) · M. haleakalae (Haleakala Melicope) · M. haupuensis (Alani) · M. hawaiensis (Manena) · M. hosakae (Honolulu Melicope) · M. kaalaensis (Kaala Melicope) · M. kavaiensis (Kauai Melicope) · M. knudsenii (Knudsen's Melicope) · M. lydgatei (Alani) · M. macropus (Kaholuamanu Melicope) · M. makahae (Makaha Valley Melicope) · M. mauii (Maui Melicope) · M. molokaiensis (Molokai Melicope) · M. mucronulata (Alani) · M. munroi (Lanahale) · M. nealiae (Kokee Plateau Melicope) · M. oahuensis (Oahu Melicope) · M. obovata (Obovate Melicope) · M. orbicularis (Honokahua Melicope) · M. ovalis (Wild Pelea) · M. ovata (Eggshape Melicope) · M. pallida (Alani) · M. paniculata (Alani) · M. peduncularis (Boxfruit Alani) · M. pseudoanisata (Kohala Summit Melicope) · M. puberula (Hairy Melicope) · M. quadrangularis (Four-Angled Pelea) · M. radiata (Kapu Melicope) · M. reflexa (Alani) · M. rotundifolia (Round-Leaf Pelea) · M. saint-johnii (St John's Pelea) · M. sandwicensis (Gray's Pelea) · M. volcanica (Volcanic Melicope) · M. waialealae (Alani Wai) · M. wailauensis (Wailau Melicope) · M. wawraeana (Monoa Melicope) · M. zahlbruckneri (Zahlbruckner's Melicope)

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Melicope cruciata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012