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