Acronychia pendunculata (L.) Miq

Type
Indigenous
Family
Rutaceae
Synonym
Jambolifera pedunculata L.
Synonym_2
Acronychia laurifolia Blume
Local Name
Vidukanali
Local Name 2
Orilatheeppetimaram
Local Name 3
Verukutheeni
Habit
Small to medium sized tree
Tree Seed
Fruit type: 
Drupe.
Vernacular name: 
Mutta-nari, Vidukanali, Verukutheeni (Malayalam) (Sasidharan, 2004); Mutta-nari (Tamil ) (Bose et al., 1998).
Flowering season: 
June to December (Bose et al., 1998).
Fruiting season: 
Throughout the year.
Botanical Features

Evergreen trees, bark greyish-yellow; blaze dull red with white narrow streaks; branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. Leaves unifoliolate, opposite, decussate, estipulate; rachis 10-30 mm long, slender, glabrous, grooved above; petiolule upto 2 mm, lamina 4.3-15 x 1.8-7.5 cm, obovate, obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, base acute or cuneate, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 9-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, flowers yellowish-white; in trichotomous, corymbose, axillary cymes; fruit a berry, subglobose, pale-brown, obscurely lobed; seeds black.