| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Rutaceae |
| Synonym | Fagra rhesta Roxb. |
| Synonym_2 | Zanthoxylum budrunga (Roxb.) DC. |
| Local Name | Mullilam |
| Common Name | Mullilam |
| Habit | Small to medium sized tree |
| Tree Seed | Fruit type: Follicle. Seed weight: 2,000 seeds/kg (Rai, 1999; Chacko et al., 2002). Vernacular name: Mullilam, Kattumurukku (Malayalam) (Sasidharan, 2004; Chacko et al., 2002), Pepuli (Hindi) (Gamble, 1922). Flowering season: April; June to November (Bourdillon, 1908). Fruiting season: October-January (Rai, 1999, Chacko et al., 2002; Bourdillon, 1908). Germination type: No information (Chacko et al., 2002). Germination percentage: 15% |
| Botanical Features | Deciduous trees, bark brown, mottled with white, armed with conical prickles; outer bark dead, corky, pale yellow, inner bark sulphur yellow; branchlets woody, terete, sparsely prickly. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; rachis 30-45 cm long slightly grooved above when young, becoming cylindric on maturity, usually prickly, glabrous; leaflets 13-23, opposite or subopposite, estipulate; petiolule 1-5 mm long; lamina 6-19 x 3-6.5 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong, oblong-ovate, base oblique, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire or crenate, glabrous, punctate, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, flowers greenish-yellow, in terminal cymose panicles, fruit a capsule, of 1-4 cocci, purplish, tubercled, aromatic; seeds globose, smooth, blue-black. |
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