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Melicope pteleifolia Melicope pteleifolia (c) 黃美滿 · New Taipei, Taiwan · CC BY
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Melicope

Melicope is a genus of about 240 species of shrubs and trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring from the Hawaiian Islands across the Pacific Ocean to tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus Melicope have simple or trifoliate leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flowers arranged in panicles, with four sepals, four petals and four or eight stamens and fruit composed of up to four follicles.

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Tropical shrub yields new compounds that kill cancer cells in lab

Plants like this one, related to citrus and used in traditional medicine across Southeast Asia, r...

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