• Family : RUTACEAE
  (Rue Or Citrus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NIMBU FAMILY (नींबू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUTACEAE
• Basionym : Fagara rhetsa Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Fagara budrunga Roxb.; Zanthoxylum budrunga (Roxb.) DC.; Zanthoxylum limonella (Dennst.) Alston
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Common name : Indian Prickly Ash
• Vernacular name : Badrang (Hindi); Gaavate mara, Jummi mara, Aramadala mara (Kannada); Racha, Rhetsa-marmu (Telugu); Morai, Kuli (Oria); Tejavati (Sanskrit); Kothumurikku, Mullilam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional; undergrowth of trees in wet deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Large deciduous tree; spines conical
• Flower, Fruit : March-November
• Collector(s) Name : C.J. Saldanha, K.P. Sreenath and S.R, Ramesh; C.J. Saldanha; S. Udaya Kumar and B. Gurudev Singh
• Collection Date : 04/08/1979; 21/08/1969; 08/07/1982
• Collection Nos : KFP 8876; 14570; KFP 14631
• Collection Locality : South Kanara dist.; Hassan dist.; Uttara Kannada dist.
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Ballari district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Dhule district, Jalgaon district, Nandurbar district, Nashik district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Puri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Java, Philippines, Moluccas, S. Papua
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar 2015. Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of Northern Andhra Pradesh, India. JoTT 7 (8): 7443-7459; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; M.R. Almeida (1996). Flora of Maharashtra vol.1
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Zanthoxylum rhetsa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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