Melicope chunii (Merr.) T. G. Hartley

Shrubs or trees, 1.5-12 m tall, dioecious. Young branchlets 2-3 mm wide in third internode. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 2-6 cm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; leaflet blades ± narrowly elliptic, in terminal leaflet 5-12 × 1.5-3.5 cm, glabrous, apex acuminate or sometimes acute. Inflorescences axillary, 4.5-9 × 3-4.5 cm; peduncle 2-3.5 cm; larger primary branches ascending. Pedicel 2-3.5 mm but 3-4 mm in fruit, glabrous. Sepals 0.5-0.7 mm, connate at base or to ca. 1/4 their length, glabrous or margin irregularly ciliolate, persistent in fruit. Petals 2-2.5 mm, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 4, in male flowers 2.5-3 mm, in female flowers 1.5-2.5 mm; filaments at least in male flowers subulate to filiform at apex. Gynoecium in female flowers 1.5-2 mm, in male flowers 0.2-0.5 mm; ovary sparsely hirsutulous. Fruit follicles ellipsoid or obovoid, 5-6 mm, glabrate. Seeds subglobose to ellipsoid, 2.5-3.6 mm, attachment Type B.

Hainan.

● Forests; below 400 m.

Euodia chunii Merrill, J. Arnold Arbor. 6: 132. 1925; E. lepta Merrill var. chunii (Merrill) C. C. Huang.

Melicope chunii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cửu lý hương. Loài này được T.G. Hartley mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 2001.