• Family : RUTACEAE
  (Rue Or Citrus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NIMBU FAMILY (नींबू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUTACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Fagara tetrasperma (Wight & Arn.) Engl.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Shesike (Kannada); Karunjuri, Perunjuri (Tamil); Kokkimullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen, semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Very rare. Grows gregariously on shola borders on trees.
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh; S.M. Ahamed, S.R. Ramesh and N.S. Ravindran
• Collection Date : 19/09/1980; 02/05/1978
• Collection Nos : KFP 12299; KFP 870
• Collection Locality : Coorg dist.; Chikkamagalur dist.
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India 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 tetraspermum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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