Forster, J.R. & Forster J.G.A. (29 November 1775), Characteres Generum Plantarum Edn. 1: 55, t. 28 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Melicope ternata Forster & G.Forster

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 359 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 12 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Euodia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 20 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Euodia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 77 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 193 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Rutaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 453-454 [secondary reference]

Hartley, T.G. (26 September 1990), A New Species and New Combinations in Melicope (Rutaceae) in New South Wales. Telopea 4(1): 34 [secondary reference]

Richards, P.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Melicope. Flora of New South Wales 2: 266-267 [secondary reference]

Hartley, T.G. in Holttum, R.E. (2001), On the taxonomy and biogeography of Euodia and Melicope (Rutaceae). Allertonia 8(1): 1-328 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Evodiella B.L.Linden legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI

Richards, P.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Melicope. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 315 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 468 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 535 [secondary reference]

Earp, C. (2013), The date of publication of the Forsters' Characteres Generum Plantarum revisited. New Zealand Journal of Botany 51(4): 252-263 [secondary reference]

• Comment: The author asserts that the 1775 editions of the Forsters' Characteres Generum Plantarum are not effectively published and that effective publication occurred only with the 1776 quarto edition. Proposals to conserve genera and to suppress other editions are also mooted. The 1775 publication date is maintained here until the outcome of these proposals is known.

Hartley, T.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Melicope. Flora of Australia 26: 95 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek meli (honey) and kope (a cutting), referring to the nectariferous disc in the type species, which is +/ lobed."

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