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Melia (plant)

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Short description: Genus of trees

Melia
Melia azedarach fruits.JPG
Melia azedarach
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Subfamily: Melioideae
Genus: Melia
L.[1]
Type species
Melia azedarach
L.[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[2]
  • Azedarach Antelaea
  • Gaertn. Raf.
  • Mill. Zederachia
  • Azedarac Heist. ex Fabr.
  • Azedara Adans.

Melia is a genus of flowering trees in the family Meliaceae.[3] The name is derived from μελία, the Greek name used by Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC) for Fraxinus ornus,[4] which has similar leaves.[5]

Species

(As of March 2023), Plants of the World Online accepted three species:[2]

  • Melia azedarach L. – chinaberry, Persian lilac, white cedar
  • Melia dubia Cav.
  • Melia volkensii Gürke

Formerly placed here

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Species Plantarum 1: 384-385. 1753. "Name: Melia L.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40016385. "Type Specimen: Melia azedarach" 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Melia L..". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327507-2. 
  3. Elizabeth McClintock, Jepson Herbarium (1993). "Jepson Manuel treatment for MELIA". Jepson Flora Project. Berkeley, California: Regents of the University of California. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5151,5152. 
  4. μελία. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
  5. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. 3 M-Q. CRC Press. p. 1650. ISBN 978-0-8493-2677-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&. 
  6. "GRIN Species Records of Melia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?7422. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2703639 entry





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