Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Melia
Meliaceae Juss.
Melia L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 384 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 182 [secondary reference]
Aiton, W.T. (1811), Hortus Kewensis Edn. 2, 3: 39 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 380 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 9 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 16 BHL [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 86 [secondary reference]
Britton, N.L. (1918), Flora of Bermuda: 204 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Melia azedarach L.
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 322 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 814 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 145 [secondary reference]
Reynolds, S.T. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Meliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 477 [secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Meliaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 476 [secondary reference]
Taylor, M.J. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Meliaceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 279 [secondary reference]
Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Meliaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 663 [secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Meliaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 298 [secondary reference]
Taylor, M.J. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Meliaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 328 [secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 292 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Azedarach Mill. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), NI, Vic (naturalised)
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 534 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Meliaceae. Flora of Australia 26: 11 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Azedarach Mill. legitimate
  • Etymology: "from the Greek melia, referring to manna ash (Fraxinus ornus L., Oleaceae), which has leaves similar to those of Axadirachta indica A.Juss. (=Melia axadirachta L.)"