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Acronychia pedunculata (L.)Miq.
Family
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Rutaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam-Muttanari
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Flowering and fruiting period
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March-November
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia and China
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Distribution in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen forests, also in the
plains
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Key Botanical Characters:
Evergreen trees, bark greyish-yellow;
branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. Leaves unifoliolate, opposite, decussat.
Flowers bisexual, yellowish-white, in trichotomous, corymbose, axillary
cymes; peduncle slender 6-12 cm long. Sepals 4, lobes ovate, connate, margin
ciliate. Petals 4, free, oblong, densely hairy within. Stamens 8, 2-seriate;
filaments unequal, densely reflexed hairy; disc 8-angled, minutely pubescent.
Ovary superior, conical, partly immersed in the disc, 4-angled densely silky
outside, 4-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style stout; stigma 4-grooved.
Fruit a berry.
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