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Description

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Trees or shrubs. Leaves 2(rarely 3)-pinnate; pinnae and leaflets opposite or subopposite. Leaflets usually crenate or serrate, stellate-hairy when young. Flowers bisexual and male on the same plant, pale lilac (in ours) in large, sweet-scented, stellate-hairy panicles. Calyx lobed to base, lobes 5(-6). Petals 5(-6), free. Staminal tube cylindric; anthers 10-12, alternating with a pair of narrowly triangular appendages. Ovary 4-8-locular. Fruit a drupe with 4-8 loosely united pyrenes, each with 1-2 seeds.

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Melia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=817
author: Mark Hyde
author: Bart Wursten
author: Petra Ballings

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Melia (plant)

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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

Azadirachta excelsa (Jack) M.Jacobs (as M. excelsa Jack)
Azadirachta indica A.Juss. (as M. azadirachta L.)
Cipadessa baccifera (Roth) Miq. (as M. baccifera Roth)
Dysoxylum parasiticum (Osbeck) Kosterm. (as M. parasitica Osbeck)
Sandoricum koetjape (Burm.f.) Merr. (as M. koetjape Burm.f.)^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Species Plantarum 1: 384-385. 1753. "Name: Melia L." Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 8, 2010. Type Specimen: Melia azedarach
^ ^a ^b "Melia L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
^ Elizabeth McClintock, Jepson Herbarium (1993). "Jepson Manuel treatment for MELIA". Jepson Flora Project. Berkeley, California: Regents of the University of California. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
^ μελία. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. Vol. 3 M-Q. CRC Press. p. 1650. ISBN 978-0-8493-2677-6.
^ "GRIN Species Records of Melia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2011-04-23.

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Melia (plant): Brief Summary

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

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