| 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. |