Melicope Madagascariensis
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''Melicope madagascariensis'' is a species of
plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
in the family Rutaceae. It is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
and is used as a medical plant. It reaches 10-20m height, flowers from November to January and fruits around March to June.database.prota.org - Medicinal plants/Plantes médicinales 2
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Endemic flora of Madagascar madagascariensis Plants described in 1882 Taxa named by John Gilbert Baker Taxa named by Thomas Gordon Hartley {{Rutaceae-stub