Gen inf
- Melicope is a genus of about 240 species of shrubs and trees in the family Rutaceae.
- Melicope bonwickii, commonly known as yellow evodia or yellow corkwood, is a species of tree in the family Rutaceae.
- Taxonomy: The genus Melicope was first formally described in 1775 by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster in their book Characteres Generum Plantatum. Species was first formally described in 1865 by Ferdinand von Mueller, who gave it the name Euodia bonwickii and published the description in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. In 1994, Thomas Gordon Hartley changed the name to Melicope bonwickii in the journal Sandaknia. (4)
- Etymology: The genus name Melicope derives from Greek words meli, meaning "honey," and kope, meaning "a division," referring to the glands at the base of the ovary. The specific epithet bonwickii honors James Bonwick.

Botany
• Melicope bonwickii grows up to 40 meters (130 ft) tall. Leaves are trifoliate on a petiole  30–95 mm (1.2–3.7 in) long, the end leaflet egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sessile, 100–300 mm (3.9–11.8 in) long and 50–150 mm (2.0–5.9 in) wide. Flowers are bisexual, borne in panicles  35–100 mm (1.4–3.9 in) long, in leaf axils. Sepals are more or less round, 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in)long and joined at the base. Petals are pink, rarely white, about 4.5 mm (0.18 in) and are hairy with a ridge on the back. There are four  stamens. Fruit consists of up to four follicles, 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in)long. (4)

• A tree up to 40 m tall, young branchlets glabrous to rarely sparsely hairy, terminal bud appressed hairy. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate, 14-40 cm long, leaflets elliptical to obovate, 10-30 cm × 5-15 cm, glabrous or sparsely hairy on veins below. Inflorescence on branchlets below the leaves, rarely axillary, glabrous to sparsely hairy, 3.5-10 cm long. Flowers bisexual, stamens 4, filaments glabrous. Fruit sparsely hairy to almost glabrous, follicles nearly round to obovoid, 4-6 mm long, exocarp dry. Seeds nearly round to ellipsoid or hemispherical, 3-4.5 mm long. (PROSEA)

Distribution
- Native to the Philippines. (1)
- Also native to Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Queensland, Sulawesi, Vanuatu. (1)

Parts used
Bark, leaves.

Uses
Edibility
- No recorded information on fruits, leaves, and flowers.
Folkloric
- No reported medicinal use in the Philippines.
- In Indonesia, bark used as leech repellent or for treatment of leech bites.
- In the Tanimbar Islands of the Moluccas, plant used for treatment of dysentery.
Others
- Nectar: Flowers are popular with nectar or pollen feeding birds, especially parrots. (2)
- Agroforestry: Potential as pioneer species in restoring native woodland. (2)
- Wood: A useful general purpose timber.

Studies
• Anticancer / Furoquinoline Alkaloids / Cytotoxicity Against Cervical Cell Lines / Leaves: Study of leaves isolated furoquinoline alkaloids: a new 7-(2'-hydroxy-3'-chloroprenyloxy)-4-methoxyfuro-quinoline (1) together with the known 7-(2',3'-epoxyprenyloxy)-4-methoxyfuroquinoline (2), evellerine (3) kokusaginine (4) and an amide aurantiamide acetate (5). Compounds 1 and 2 showed significant activity against cervical cell lines (HeLa). (3)

Availability
- Wild-crafted.

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
Melicope bonwickii / KEW: Plants of the World Online
(2)
Melicope bonwickii / Tropical Plants Database: Ken Fern / Useful Tropical Plants
(3)
Furoquinoline alkaloids from Melicope bonwickii (F.Muell.) T.Hartley / Ismiarni Komala, Mawardi Rahmani, Mohd Aspollah Sukari, Asmah Rahmat et al / Natural Product Research, 2006; 20(4): pp 355-360 /
DOI: 10.1080/14786410500462983
(4)
Melicope bonwickii / Wikipedia
(5)
Melicope bonwickii / Juliasri Djamal, JLCH van Valkenburg / PROSEA

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