Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melicope micrococca

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, west of Nowra

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Craig Hodges, Bellbird Nature Refuge, NE of Killarney, Qld

Common name

Hairy-leaved doughwood, White Euodia

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Margins of forest and regrowth. Coast and ranges north from the Nowra district.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 35 m high. Seeds with a fleshy aril, completely covering the seed. Bark pale brown, smooth with scattered corky blisters and elongated lenticels. Young stems covered in soft hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, with 3 leaflets each 2.5–13 cm long, 10–50 mm wide, tips gradually tapering to a point, surfaces hairless or the lower surface sometimes hairy, oil dots obvious. Flowers bisexual or functionally unisexual, white, with 4 petals each 3–6 mm long. Flowers in branched clusters to 8 cm long. Flowering: summer to early autumn. Seed cases grey to black, 4–6 mm long, seed stalk/arils shiny, black.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melicope~micrococca (accessed 24 January, 2021)