Flag for Taxon: Evodiella muelleri
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coenobita | Evodiella muelleri |
Evodiella mueller and Melicope elleryana and different species and cannot be rolled into one via a taxon swap. The species are completely different. |
Feb. 14, 2021 23:09:53 +0000 | craig-r |
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ALA also accepts them as synonyms too, citing the Australian Plant census: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2913641#names
In fact, they must refer to the same species, as pointed out by https://www.jstor.org/stable/23189298.
I know both plants well and they are different so something is going on. I think the synonym Evodia muelleri is being confused with Evodiella muelleri. Both species grow near my home town and they have very different habitats and growth forms. Here are some photos showing Evodiella muelleri - https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=evodiella
and here are some showing Melicope elleryana - https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=%22Melicope%20elleryana%22.
None of these photos are mine. They are 99% correct. I saw at least one wrong id, but most are very good. A few of the submitters are professional botanists with extensive local experience.
Most of those photos in your first link are labeled Melicope rubra: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/488825-Melicope-rubra
In the article I linked above, E. muelleri f. dingii and f. kanange are synonyms of M. rubra. Perhaps that is the source of confusion? Your observation is M. rubra, and the type form is the same as M. elleryana?
I haven't seen the journal yet (still in copyright), but it is pretty unlikely that Euodia muelleri and Evodiella muelleri refer to different plants. Most citing authors make it clear that the latter name is based on the former, which in turn has to be taken to be based on Melicope elleryana.
Perhaps the source of confusion is related to the second link below which suggests that Evodiella muelleri is a taxonomic synonym of both M. elleryana and M. rubra
Euodia muelleri Engl. = M. elleryana (https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/881465)
https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/507126
Evodiella muelleri (Engl.) B.L.Linden = M. elleryana, M. rubra (https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/507126)
M. elleryana: https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/118560/api/apniFormat
Taxon inactivated - complain should move to the active one.
Both Euodia muelleri and Evodiella muelleri are synonyms of M. elleryana as per APC, POWO and other available resources. M. rubra is treated as distinct, also consistent with other resources. Both M. elleryana and M. rubra are present on iNat and everything else looks good so I think this can be closed
For completeness sake, from https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/87175/api/apni-format
Evodiella muelleri (Engl.) B.L.Linden , nom. illeg. Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 470. Taxonomic synonym of: Melicope rubra (Lauterb. & K.Schum.) T.G.Hartley
Evodiella muelleri (Engl.) B.L.Linden , nom. illeg. Hartley, T.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Melicope. Flora of Australia 26: 101. Nomenclatural synonym of: Melicope elleryana (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley
Hi @coenobita, it's listed as a synonym on Plants of the World Online and APC. Can you provide more information, and have you tried reaching out to Kew yet? (bi@kew.org)
http://powo.science.kew.org/?q=Evodiella%20muelleri