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Melodinus

Melodinus is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to Indomalaya, Meganesia and various islands in the western Pacific. A type of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids called melodinines can be isolated from Melodinus plants.

Species

Accepted species include:

  1. Melodinus acutiflorus <small>F.&nbsp;Muell.</small> - Papua New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
  2. Melodinus aeneus <small>Baill.</small> - New Caledonia
  3. Melodinus angustifolius <small>Hayata</small> - Taiwan, N Vietnam
  4. Melodinus australis <small>(F.&nbsp;Muell.) Pierre</small> - New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu
  5. Melodinus axillaris <small>W.&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Wang</small> - Yunnan
  6. Melodinus balansae <small>Baill.</small> - New Caledonia
  7. Melodinus baueri <small>Endl.</small> - E Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island
  8. Melodinus cochinchinensis <small>(Lour.) Merr.</small> - Indochina, W Malaysia, E Himalayas (Assam, Bhutan, Bangladesh, etc.), Yunnan
  9. Melodinus cumingii <small>A.&nbsp;DC.</small> - Philippines
  10. Melodinus densistriatus <small>Markgr.</small> - New Guinea
  11. Melodinus forbesii <small>Fawc.</small> - Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores, Maluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea
  12. Melodinus fusiformis <small>Champ. ex Benth.</small> - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou), Indochina, Luzon
  13. Melodinus glaber <small>Turrill</small> - Vanuatu, Fiji
  14. Melodinus honbaensis <small>A.&nbsp;Chev. ex Pit.</small> - S Vietnam
  15. Melodinus insularis <small>(Markgr.) Fosberg</small> - Palau
  16. Melodinus orientalis <small>Blume</small> - Thailand, W Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Philippines
  17. Melodinus philippensis <small>A.DC.</small> - Mindoro
  18. Melodinus philliraeoides <small>Labill.</small> - New Caledonia
  19. Melodinus reticulatus <small>Boiteau</small> - New Caledonia
  20. Melodinus scandens <small>J.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;Forst & G.&nbsp;Forst.</small> - New Caledonia
  21. Melodinus suaveolens <small>(Hance) Champ. ex Benth.</small> - Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Vietnam
  22. Melodinus tenuicaudatus <small>Tsiang & P.&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Li</small> - Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi
  23. Melodinus vitiensis <small>Rolfe</small> - Loyalty Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu

References

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