Genus Melicytus (Noun)
Meaning
A genus of deciduous shrubs or trees; fruit is a berry; grow in New Zealand and Fiji and Solomon Islands.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Melicytus novae-zelandiae, of the genus Melicytus, is native to New Zealand's South Island and is an endangered species.
- Plants of the genus Melicytus are typically shrubs or small trees that grow up to 10 m tall.
- The genus Melicytus is often seen as an evolutionary link between the Chloroplastida and plants of the order Oxalidales.
- Melicytus ramiflorus is a species within the genus Melicytus and features flower clusters at the end of branches.
- New and endemic species of the genus Melicytus have been recently discovered in the Fiji Islands.