Melicope broadbentiana, commonly known as false euodia, is a species of shrub or tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It has simple leaves, trifoliate leaves or both, and small white flowers borne in short panicles in leaf axils.
Description Melicope broadbentiana is a tree that may grow to a height of but will flower and fruit as a shrub. The leaves are simple and/or trifoliate and arranged in opposite pairs. The simple leaves are egg-shaped to elliptical, long and wide on a petiole long. The end leaflet of trifoliate leaves is elliptical, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in panicles long in leaf axils. The flowers are bisexual, male-only, female only, or both male-only and female-only. The sepals are egg-shaped to round, long and fused at the base. The petals are white, long and the four stamens, when present, alternate with four shorter staminodes. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit consists of up to four follicles long and fused at the base.
Taxonomy Melicope broadbentiana was first formally described in 1891 by Frederick Manson Bailey in the Botany Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Queensland from specimens collected at an altitude of on Mount Bellenden Ker.
Distribution and habitat False euodia grows in rainforest from sea level to an altitude of and is found between the Mount Spurgeon National Park and the Paluma Range National Park in north Queensland.
Conservation status This species is classified as least concern in the Queensland Government's WildNet database.
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