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: thumb|right|150px|Fruit of Melodinus suaveolens 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