Micromelum

Micromelum
Micromelum minutum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Aurantioideae
Genus: Micromelum
Blume[1]
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Aulacia Lour.

Micromelum is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae.

Description

The genus includes evergreen and deciduous shrubs and trees. The leaves are glandular and aromatic, containing essential oils. They are alternately arranged. They are usually pinnate, divided into up to 23 leaflets, except for M. diversifolium, which sometimes has undivided leaf blades. The leaflet edges are smooth or toothed. There are sometimes glandular stipules. The inflorescence is a large panicle, sometimes flat-topped like a corymb, growing from the leaf axils or at the ends of branches. The flowers have five narrow petals in shades of green, white, or yellow, borne in a hairy, cup-like calyx with five lobes or five separate sepals. The odour of the flowers has been described as "malodorous" and "foetid".[2] There are ten stamens and one to five styles. The genus is noted for the unusual curving or twisting of the chambers in the ovary. The fruit is a berry up to 1 cm (0.4 in) long. It is yellow, orange, or red, and sometimes fleshy, but it lacks the pulp present in some related fruits, notably citrus. The peel is gland-dotted. Each fruit has one to three seeds.[3][4][2]

The plants vary in form, with M.. hirsutum being a low shrub sometimes less than 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall and M. integerrimum being a tree which can exceed 9 m (30 ft) in height.[5][3]

Taxonomy

The genus Micromelum was first formally described in 1825 by Carl Ludwig Blume in Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie and the first species described was Micromelum pubescens, now regarded as a synonym of Micromelum minutum.[6]

There are several subfamilies in the citrus family, with genus Citrus classified in the Aurantioideae. Micromelum belongs to the other tribe in this subfamily, Clauseneae. It is the only genus of the subtribe Micromelinae that are known technically as the "very remote citroid fruit trees".[3]

Micromelum includes eight species distributed in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.[2][4][7]

Species list

The following is a list of species and varieties accepted at the Plants of the World Online as at July 2020:[8]

Chemistry

M. minutum is used as a traditional medicine in Fiji, and in Malaysia it is used to treat fever and ringworm.[9] M. integerrimum has been used in China to treat dysentery and arthritis.[10]

The chemistry of these plants has been studied, with several known and new coumarins isolated.[9] One such coumarin from M. integerrimum, micromelin, appears to have anticancer properties.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Micromelum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Micromelum". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. ^ a b c Swingle, W. T., rev. P. C. Reece. Chapter 3: The Botany of Citrus and its Wild Relatives. In: The Citrus Industry vol. 1. Webber, H. J. (ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. 1967.
  4. ^ a b Micromelum. Flora of China.
  5. ^ Burke, J. Henry; Swingle, Walter T.; Reece, Philip C.; Hodgson, Robert W.; Lawton, Harry W. (1967). Reuther, Walter; Webber, Herbert John; Batchelor, Leon Dexter (eds.). The Citrus Industry (Revised ed.). California: University of California Press. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Micromelum minutum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  7. ^ Citrus Variety Collection. College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. University of California, Riverside.
  8. ^ "Micromelum". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  9. ^ a b Ito, C., et al. (2000). Chemical constituents of Micromelum minutum. Isolation and structural elucidation of new coumarins. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin - Tokyo 48(3), 334-38.
  10. ^ a b He, H. P., et al. (2001). Three new coumarins from Micromelum integerrimum.[permanent dead link] Chinese Chemical Letters 12(7) 603-06.

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