Melanolepis Explained

Melanolepis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1856.^[1] It is native to Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and some islands of the western Pacific.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Species^[2]

1. Melanolepis multiglandulosa (Reinw. ex Blume) Rchb. & Zoll - Nansei-shoto, Mariana Islands, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Maluku, Sulawesi, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan
2. Melanolepis vitifolia (Kuntze) Gagnep. - Vietnam, Cambodia

Notes and References

1. Zollinger, Heinrich (1856) Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 1(4): 22.
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=123988 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=220008294 Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 240 墨鳞 mo lin Melanolepis multiglandulosa (Reinwardt ex Blume) H. G. Reichenbach & Zollinger, Acta Soc. Regiae Sci. Indo-Neêrl. 1(4): 22. 1856., Croton multiglandulosus Reinwardt ex Blume, Catalogus, 105. 1823; Mallotus multiglandulosus (Reinwardt ex Blume) Hurusawa