| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Meliaceae |
| Synonym | Milnea apiocarpa Thw. |
| Local Name | Chenkara |
| Habit | Small to medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, young parts and leaves densely covered with dark brown fimbriate scales. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 3-20 cm long, stout, swollen at base, covered with peltate scales, grooved above; leaflets 5-7, opposite or subopposite, estipellate; petiolule 4-12 mm long, stout, grooved above, covered with peltate scales; lamina 5-10 x 2-3.5 cm, obovate, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblong, base obliquely acute, apex acute, margin entire, coriaceous, covered with peltate scales when young, almost glabrous and foveolate, except along midrib beneath; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, flowers polygamo-dioecous, yellow, in lax axillary racemosely branched, densely rusty-lepidote, panicles; fruit a berry, 1.5 x 1.3 cm, obovoid, ridged, densely scaly. |