Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malpighiales Martius
Family
Violaceae
Genus
Melicytus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Melicytus dentatus (R.Br. ex DC.) Molloy & Mabb. in Mabberley, Bot. Mag. 17: 234 (2000)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Hymenanthera dentata R.Br. ex DC.
  • = Hymenanthera angustifolia R.Br. ex DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 1, 315 (1824) pro parte
  • ≡ Hymenanthera dentata var. angustifolia (R.Br. ex DC.) Benth., Fl. Austral. 1, 104 (1863)
  • ≡ Melicytus angustifolius (R.Br. ex DC.) Garnock-Jones, New Zealand J. Bot. 25: 127 (1987) pro parte
 Description

Slender erect to spreading dioec. shrub or small tree up to 3 m. tall; branchlets ± flexuous, slender, sts interlacing. Lvs (sts few or absent) submembr., (1)–2–3 cm. × 1–4 mm., linear to very narrow-oblong, entire or sinuate or with a few bluntly serrate teeth. Fls ± 3 mm. diam., us. solitary; ♂ with sepals broadly ovate to deltoid, ± fimbriate, ± 1 mm. long; petals ± 3 mm. long, oblong, brownish yellow, revolute at apex; ♀ smaller, style 2–(3)-fid. Berry 3–4 mm. diam., subglobose, white, ± purple-stained. Seeds (1)–2, concavo-convex.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Hymenanthera angustifolia R.Br. ex DC.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Bentham, G. 1863: Flora Australiensis. Edition 1.
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
de Candolle, A.P. 1824: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Vol. 1. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris.
Heenan, P.B.; de Lange, P.J.; Cameron, E.K.; Parris, B.S. 2008: Checklist of dicotyledons, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes naturalised or casual in New Zealand: additional records 2004–06. New Zealand Journal of Botany 46: 257–283.
Kirk,T. 1899: The Students' Flora of New Zealand and the Outlying Islands. Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z. [as Hymenanthera dentata var. angustifolia (R.Br. ex DC.) Benth.]
Mabberley, D.J. 2000: The botanical magazine and George Bond's drawings of Allan Cunningham's Australian plants. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 17(4): 226–235.
Molloy, B. P. J.; Druce, A. P. 1994: A new species name in Melicytus (Violaceae) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 32(2): 113–118.