Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) • Earth.com

Oahu Pilo Kea

(Melicope cornuta)

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Description

Platydesma cornuta is a species of flowering plant described by Wilhelm William B. Hillebrand . Platydesma is a genus of plants in family Rutaceae. Evidence from 2009 indicates that Platydesma is nested within the related genus Melicope and is sister to all Hawaiian Melicope species. And while Melicope species are dioecious (individual plants only bear either male or female flowers), the flowers of Platydesma are hermaphroditic, suggesting a rare evolutionary reversion away from dioecy in Platydesma. While they have no medicinal purposes; the board of water supply states that they can be used for a shrub.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Sapindales
Family:Rutaceae
Genus:Melicope
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