Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rutaceae | Melicope
5. Melicope chunii (Merrill) T. G. Hartley; Allertonia. 8: 237. 2001.
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Euodia chunii Merrill; J. Arnold Arbor. 6: 132. 1925; E. lepta Merrill var. chunii (Merrill) C. C. Huang.
Shrubs or trees; 1.5-12 m tall; dioecious. Young branchlets 2-3 mm wide in third internode. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 2-6 cm; glabrous or sparsely puberulent; leaflet blades ± narrowly elliptic; in terminal leaflet 5-12 x 1.5-3.5 cm; glabrous; apex acuminate or sometimes acute. Inflorescences axillary; 4.5-9 x 3-4.5 cm; peduncle 2-3.5 cm; larger primary branches ascending. Pedicel 2-3.5 mm but 3-4 mm in fruit; glabrous. Sepals 0.5-0.7 mm; connate at base or to ca. 1/4 their length; glabrous or margin irregularly ciliolate; persistent in fruit. Petals 2-2.5 mm; deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4; in male flowers 2.5-3 mm; in female flowers 1.5-2.5 mm; filaments at least in male flowers subulate to filiform at apex. Gynoecium in female flowers 1.5-2 mm; in male flowers 0.2-0.5 mm; ovary sparsely hirsutulous. Fruit follicles ellipsoid or obovoid; 5-6 mm; glabrate. Seeds subglobose to ellipsoid; 2.5-3.6 mm; attachment Type B.
? Forests; below 400 m. Hainan.