Melodinus

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.

Species
Accepted species include:
 * 1) Melodinus acutiflorus F. Muell. - Papua New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales
 * 2) Melodinus aeneus Baill. - New Caledonia
 * 3) Melodinus angustifolius Hayata - Taiwan, N Vietnam
 * 4) Melodinus australis (F. Muell.) Pierre - New Guinea, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu
 * 5) Melodinus axillaris W. T. Wang - Yunnan
 * 6) Melodinus balansae Baill. - New Caledonia
 * 7) Melodinus baueri Endl. - E Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island
 * 8) Melodinus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Merr. - Indochina, W Malaysia, E Himalayas (Assam, Bhutan, Bangladesh, etc.), Yunnan
 * 9) Melodinus cumingii A. DC. - Philippines
 * 10) Melodinus densistriatus Markgr. - New Guinea
 * 11) Melodinus forbesii Fawc.  - Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores, Maluku, Sulawesi, New Guinea
 * 12) Melodinus fusiformis Champ. ex Benth.  - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou), Indochina, Luzon
 * 13) Melodinus glaber Turrill - Vanuatu, Fiji
 * 14) Melodinus honbaensis A. Chev. ex Pit. - S Vietnam
 * 15) Melodinus insularis (Markgr.) Fosberg - Palau
 * 16) Melodinus orientalis Blume  - Thailand, W Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Philippines
 * 17) Melodinus philippensis A.DC. - Mindoro
 * 18) Melodinus philliraeoides Labill.  - New Caledonia
 * 19) Melodinus reticulatus Boiteau - New Caledonia
 * 20) Melodinus scandens J. R. Forst & G. Forst. - New Caledonia
 * 21) Melodinus suaveolens (Hance) Champ. ex Benth. - Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Vietnam
 * 22) Melodinus tenuicaudatus Tsiang & P. T. Li - Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi
 * 23) Melodinus vitiensis Rolfe - Loyalty Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu