- 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; Fagara budrunga Roxb.; Fagara parviflora (Benth.) Engl.; Fagara rhetsa Roxb.; Lacuris illicioides Buch.-Ham.; Tipalia limonella Dennst.; Zanthoxylum budrunga (Roxb.) DC.; Zanthoxylum crenatum Wall.; Zanthoxylum limonella (Dennst.) Alston; Zanthoxylum oblongum Wall.; Zanthoxylum parviflorum Benth.; Zanthoxylum rhetsum St.-Lag.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Roxb.) DC.
- 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 : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional; undergrowth of trees in wet deciduous forests. The young leaves cooked and eaten as a vegetable by Burmans.
- Key identification features : A medium-vised deciduous tree, the base of the trunk and roots corky furrowed, cut yellow with faint brown streaks, turning dark brown in a little while. Leaves imparipinnate, collected at the ends of the branchlets, rachis slender, crenate-serrate with a large transparent gland in each sinus; pungent when bruised. Flowers small, greenish-white, in axillary panicles with opposite branches. Fruit the size of a pea.
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, K.P. Sreenath, S.R, Ramesh; Cecil J. Saldanha; S. Udaya Kumar, 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
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman,Rangat taluk and Long Island
- Exotic/Native : Native
- 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
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 110
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Zanthoxylum rhetsa. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.
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