Melodinus orientalisBlume

WFO wfo-0000240210 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. a elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-18 / obs. 171844878
Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. b elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173711032
Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. c elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171844860
Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. d elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173711007
Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. e elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171844885
Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. f elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173711019
Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. g elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173711045
Melodinus orientalis, photographed by elawrey
fig. h elawrey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173711053

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Melodinus orientalis is native: Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand BorneoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailand
Native distribution of Melodinus orientalis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 30 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alyxia coriacea Wall.
  • Alyxia cuspidata Wall. ex A.DC.
  • Alyxia glaucescens Wall.
  • Alyxia macrocarpa Koord.
  • Ancylocladus umbrosus Kuntze
  • Chilocarpus cuspidatus Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Chilocarpus globosus Elmer
  • Gynopogon coriaceus (Wall.) K.Schum.
  • Hunteria coriacea Wall. ex G.Don
  • Hunteria cuspidata Wall. ex A.DC.
  • Melodinus citriformis King & Gamble
  • Melodinus coriaceus Oliv.
  • Melodinus elliptifolius (Quisumb. & Merr.) Pichon
  • Melodinus fasciculatus Blume
  • Melodinus globosus (Elmer) Pichon
  • Melodinus kopsiifolius Markgr.
  • Melodinus laevigatus Blume
  • Melodinus lancifolius Ridl.
  • Melodinus laxiflorus Blume
  • Melodinus luzoniensis (Merr.) Pichon
  • Melodinus micranthus Hook.f.
  • Melodinus perakensis King & Gamble
  • Pulassarium coriaceum (Wall.) Kuntze
  • Rhytileucoma chilocarpoides F.Muell.

and 6 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.