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Melanolepis

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Euphorbiaceae

Tribe
  
Chrozophoreae

Rank
  
Genus

Order
  
Malpighiales

Subfamily
  
Acalyphoideae

Subtribe
  
Doryxylinae

Similar
  
Melanolepis multiglandulosa, Doryxylon, Thyrsanthera, Koilodepas, Ptychopyxis

Melanolepis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1856. It is native to Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and some islands of the western Pacific.

Species
  1. Melanolepis multiglandulosa (Reinw. ex Blume) Rchb. & Zoll - Nansei-shoto, Mariana Islands, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Maluku, Sulawesi, Philippines, Lesser Sunda Islands, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan
  2. Melanolepis vitifolia (Kuntze) Gagnep. - Vietnam, Cambodia

References

Melanolepis Wikipedia