Melicytus
Melicytus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Violaceae. Hymenanthera is a synonym. It includes 19 species native to Australia, New Zealand, and the southwestern Pacific.
Species
19 species are accepted.- Melicytus alpinus – porcupine shrub
- Melicytus angustifolius
- Melicytus chathamicus – Chatham Island mahoe
- Melicytus crassifolius – thick-leaved mahoe
- Melicytus dentatus – tree violet, sometimes present in New Zealand
- Melicytus drucei – Druce's mahoe, Mt Egmont shrub mahoe
- Melicytus fasciger
- Melicytus flexuosus B.P.J.Molloy & Anthony [Peter Druce|A.P.Druce]
- Melicytus improcerus
- Melicytus lanceolatus – narrow-leaved mahoe
- Melicytus latifolius
- Melicytus macrophyllus - large-leaved mahoe
- Melicytus micranthus – swamp mahoe
- Melicytus novae-zelandiae – coastal mahoe
- Melicytus obovatus
- Melicytus orarius
- Melicytus ramiflorus, J.R. & G. Forster – mahoe or whitey-wood
- Melicytus × ramilanceolatus
- Melicytus samoensis
- ''Melicytus venosus''