Melicope vitiflora
Melicope vitiflora, commonly known as northern evodia, fishpoison wood, leatherjacket or leatherwood, is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rutaceae and is native to north-eastern Australia and New Guinea. It has trifoliate leaves and green to white or cream-coloured flowers borne in panicles in leaf axils. Description Melicope vitiflora is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of with corky outer bark. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and trifoliate on a petiole long. The leaflets are egg-shaped to elliptical, long and wide on a petiolule long. The flowers are borne in panicles long in leaf axils. The flowers are bisexual, male or female, the plants with all male or all females flowers, or dioecious. The sepals are egg-shaped to triangular, long and joined at the base. The petals are green to white or cream-coloured and long. There are four stamens in the bisexual and male flowers. Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit consists of up to four follicles long and joined at the base. Taxonomy Northern evodia was first described in 1871 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Euodia vitiflora and published the description in