Merrilliodendron

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author= de Kok, R. |date=2024 |title= Merrilliodendron megacarpum |volume=2024 |page= e.T198210183A203234481 |access-date=November 17, 2024}}

| genus = Merrilliodendron

| parent_authority = Kaneh.

| species = megacarpum

| authority = (Hemsl.) Sleumer

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|Mangifera xylocarpa |Lauterb.

|Merrilliodendron rotense |Kaneh.

|Peekeliodendron missionariorum |Sleumer

|Stemonurus megacarpus |Hemsl. }}

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Merrilliodendron is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Icacinaceae. It has a synonym of Peekeliodendron {{small|Sleumer}}.{{cite web |title=Merrilliodendron Kaneh. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:19891-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}} The only species is Merrilliodendron megacarpum {{small|(Hemsl.) Sleumer}}{{cite web |title=Merrilliodendron megacarpum (Hemsl.) Sleumer {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:434442-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 October 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is Central Malesia to western Pacific. It is found in the Bismarck Archipelago, the Caroline Islands, Marianas, New Guinea, Philippines, the Santa Cruz Islands, the Solomon Islands and Sulawesi.

The genus name of Merrilliodendron is in honour of Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956), an American botanist and taxonomist,{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} and also 'dendron' meaning tree. The Latin specific epithet of megacarpum is derived from the Greek word megacarpus meaning 'with big fruit'.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} The genus was first described and published in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) Vol.48 on page 920 in 1934, and then the species was first described and published in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem Vol.15 on page 243 in 1940.