Pink-flowered doughwood | |
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In the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Family: | Rutaceae |
Genus: | Melicope |
Species: | M. elleryana
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Binomial name | |
Melicope elleryana | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Melicope elleryana, commonly known as pink flowered doughwood, pink evodia, corkwood,[2] or saruwa,[3] is a species of rainforest shrub or tree in the family Rutaceae, and is native to New Guinea, parts of eastern Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and northern Australia. It has trifoliate leaves and pink to white, bisexual flowers arranged in panicles in leaf axils.