| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Meliaceae |
| Synonym | Zanthoxylum connaroides Wight & Arn. |
| Synonym_2 | Heynea trijuga Roxb.ex Sims. |
| Local Name | Thirivembu |
| Local Name 2 | Karuvilangam |
| Habit | Small to medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark reddish-brown or ash coloured, rough, warty; outer bark reddish, inner yellow; branchlets reddish, lenticellate. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, swollen at base, glabrous; leaflets 5-11, opposite, petiolule 7-17 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 5-15 x 2.5-7 cm, base oblique, apex acuminate or shortly caudate-acuminate, margin entire, flowers white, in axillary corymbose panicles; fruit a capsule, globose, bright red, seed one, yellowish-brown, white fleshy aril. |
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