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meliosma

Scientific Name: Meliosma

Family: Sabiaceae

Category: Dicot

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Meliosma: An Overview

Meliosma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Sabiaceae.

Considerations for Pets

  • Some Meliosma species have bristle-toothed leaves.

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

  • Scientific Name: Meliosma Blume
  • Family: Sabiaceae
  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Major Group: Angiosperms (Flowering plants)
  • Synonyms: Millingtonia Roxb., Wellingtonia Meisn.
  • Type Species: Meliosma lanceolata Blume
  • Alternative Scientific Names:
    • Meliosma pinnata (Roxb.) Walp. ssp. arnottiana (Wt.) Beus (synonym for Meliosma oldhamii Maxim.)

Distribution and Habitat

  • Native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas (Neotropics, Mexico, and Central America).
  • Specific locations mentioned: northern India to Ceylon, Korea, Sumatra, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

Morphological Characteristics and Growth Habits

  • Habit: Shrubs or trees, sometimes deciduous.
  • Size: Can grow to 9 meters tall (Meliosma cuneifolia), with some species reaching 7-11 meters (Meliosma sellowii) and 30-50 feet.
  • Bark: Black-brown (Meliosma cuneifolia)
  • Leaves: Some species have bristle-toothed leaves and leaves can be pinnate, simple, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, or odd-pinnate. Young shoots can be reddish-velvet-hairy or gray and glaucous.
  • Flowers: Long spiraea-like plumes of creamy-white flowers with a hawthorn fragrance.
  • Crown: Dense, elongate to pyramidal (Meliosma sellowii).
  • Branches: Very stout, rigid, erect.

Ecological Role

  • Meliosma can be generally easy to grow in suitable climates and lasting over a hundred years.

Quirky Facts

  • Meliosma flowers possess a unique mechanism where two anthers open explosively after being held under tension by two or three complex staminodes (sterile stamens).

Interactions with Other Organisms

  • Phakopsora meliosmae, a macrocyclic autoecious rust fungus, is reported to occur on several Meliosma species widely distributed in Asia.

Further Information

  • Burncoose Nurseries offers Meliosma plants for sale.
  • Sabiales of North America Update database (version 2011).
  • Plants of the World Online.
  • Rogers Trees and Shrubs contains information &amp photos of the Meliosma the genus tree.
  • ARKive has Meliosma photos and facts.
  • ResearchGate contains information on the phylogenetics of Sabiaceae.
  • Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • The Plant List.
  • IPNI (International Plant Names Index).
  • Australian Plant Name Index.
  • Index Nominum Genericorum.
  • iNaturalist.org.
  • Discover Life.