Melicope balloui

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Melicope balloui
Status iucn3.1 CR.svg
Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Melicope
Species:
M. balloui
Binomial name
Melicope balloui
(Rock) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone

Melicope balloui, also called Ballou's melicope [2] or rock pelea, is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It is threatened by habitat loss. Like other Hawaiian Melicope, this species is known as alani. [3]

This plant was described in 1913 by Joseph Rock, who named it after Howard M. Ballou, proofreader of his book on Hawaiian trees. It is a shrub or small tree with leathery oval leaves up to 10 centimeters long by 7 wide. Young twigs are coated in yellow-brown hairs. The female inflorescence contains 5 to 9 flowers; the male flower has never been seen. The fruit is a capsule about 2.5 centimeters wide. [4]

This plant is only known from the slopes of the volcano Haleakalā on Maui. There is a single occurrence containing an unknown number of plants. [5]

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References

  1. Keir, M. (2020). "Melicope balloui". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T33661A83802382. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T33661A83802382.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Melicope balloui". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. USFWS. Species Reports: Plants.
  4. USFWS. Endangered Status for Three Hawaiian Plant Species of the Genus Melicope. Federal Register December 5, 1994.
  5. Melicope balloui. The Nature Conservancy.