| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Meliaceae |
| Synonym | Lansium anamallayanum Bedd. |
| Local Name | Chinnakil |
| Local Name 2 | Karakil |
| Habit | Small to medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark smooth, greyish-brown mottled with grey, lenticellate; blaze dull yellow; branchlets minutely grey tomentose. Leaves imparipinnate, attenuate; rachis 4.2-11.5 cm long, slender, swollen at base, glabrous; leaflets 5-9, alternate, estipellate; petiolule 5-8 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-15 x 1.5-5.5 cm, elliptic, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-obovate, base oblique, attenuate or cuneate, acute, apex acuminate obtusely acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, pinnate, flowers yellowish-white; fruit a berry, ovoid, white, scaly; seeds 1-2, embedded in a pulpy aril. |