Sarcomelicope
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Sarcomelicope is a genus of about ten species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae that are endemic to the South Pacific.
Description
Plants in the genus Sarcomelicope are shrubs to medium-sized trees with simple leaves and flowers arranged in panicles in leaf axils, separate male and female flowers with four sepals and four petals that are free from each other and overlapping at the base. Male flowers have eight stamens that are free from each other and female flowers have four carpels that are fused, at least at the base with two ovules in each carpel. The fruit is a drupe of four carpels, partly or completely fused, and the seeds are dark brown to black.{{cite web |last1=Richards |first1=P.G. |title=Genus Sarcomelicope |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&showsyn=&dist=&constat=&lvl=gn&name=Sarcomelicope |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=16 August 2020}}
Taxonomy
The genus Sarcomelicope was first formally described in 1896 by Adolf Engler in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien and the type species is Sarcomelicope sarcococca.{{cite web|title=Sarcomelicope|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/469993|publisher=APNI|accessdate=16 August 2020}}{{cite book |last1=Engler |first1=Adolf |last2=Krause |first2=Kurt |last3=Pilger |first3=Robert K.F. |last4=Prantl |first4=Karl |title=Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien |date=1896 |volume=Teil 3, Abt. 4-5 |publisher=W. Engelmann |location=Leipzig |page=122 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/68285#page/136/mode/1up |accessdate=16 August 2020}}
=Species list=
The following is a list of Sarcomelicope species accepted at Plants of the World Online:{{cite web |title=Sarcomelicope |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Sarcomelicope |publisher=Plants of the World Online |accessdate=16 August 2020}}
- Sarcomelicope argyrophylla Guillaumin (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope dogniensis Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope follicularis Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope glauca Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope leiocarpa (P.S.Green) Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope megistophylla Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope pembaiensis Hartley (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope petiolaris (A.Gray) A.C.Sm. (Fiji)
- Sarcomelicope sarcococca (Baill.) Engl. (New Caledonia)
- Sarcomelicope simplicifolia (Endl.) T.G.Hartley (New South Wales, Queensland, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island)
- Sarcomelicope simplicifolia (Endl.) T.G.Hartley subsp. simplicifolia (New South Wales, Queensland, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island)
- Sarcomelicope simplicifolia subsp. neoscotica (P.S.Green) T.G.Hartley (New Caledonia){{cite web |title=Sarcomelicope simplicifolia |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Sarcomelicope%20simplicifolia |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |accessdate=16 August 2020}}
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