page_title: Melodinus
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Melodinus / Species
caption_attribution_description: Fruit of Melodinus suaveolens
context_page_description: Melodinus is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to Indomalaya, Meganesia and various islands in the western Pacific. A type of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids called melodinines can be isolated from Melodinus plants.
context_section_description: Accepted species include:
  Melodinus acutiflorus F.Muell. - Papua New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
  Melodinus aeneus Baill. - New Caledonia
  Melodinus angustifolius Hayata - Taiwan, N Vietnam
  Melodinus australis (F.Muell.) Pierre - New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu
  Melodinus axillaris W.T.Wang - Yunnan
  Melodinus balansae Baill. - New Caledonia
  Melodinus baueri Endl. - E Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island
  Melodinus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Merr. - Indochina, W Malaysia, E Himalayas (Assam, Bhutan, Bangladesh, etc.), Yunnan
  Melodinus cumingii A.DC. - Philippines
  Melodinus densistriatus Markgr. - New Guinea
  Melodinus forbesii Fawc.  - Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores, Maluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea
  Melodinus fusiformis Champ. ex Benth.  - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou), Indochina, Luzon
  Melodinus glaber Turrill - Vanuatu, Fiji
  Melodinus honbaensis A.Chev. ex Pit. - S Vietnam
  Melodinus insularis (Markgr.) Fosberg - Palau
  Melodinus orientalis Blume  - Thailand, W Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Philippines
  Melodinus philippensis A.DC. - Mindoro
  Melodinus philliraeoides Labill.  - New Caledonia
  Melodinus reticulatus Boiteau - New Caledonia
  Melodinus scandens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. - New Caledonia
  Melodinus suaveolens (Hance) Champ. ex Benth.  - Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Vietnam
  Melodinus tenuicaudatus Tsiang & P.T.Li - Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi
  Melodinus vitiensis Rolfe - Loyalty Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu
caption: Friut of Melodinus suaveolens
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