Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Rutaceae | Genus: Zanthoxylum | Species: Zanthoxylum armatum DC. |
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| Synonym | Zanthoxylum alatum Roxb. | Flower Color | Yellow - Orange |
| Common Name | Winged Prickly Ash | Flower Type | Panicle |
| English / Trade Name | Chinese Pepper, Toothache Tree, Yellow Wood | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Mukthrubi | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | 1300-1500 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit is usually a solitary carpel dehiscing ventrally about 3 mm in diameter tubercled, red and strongly aromatic |
| Habitat | Occurs in forest undergrowth and hot valleys in the himalayas, roadsides | Bark Type | Prickly |
| Distribution | India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Japan, Kashmir, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. | Bark Details | Bark is corky with conspicuous young stems with thick conical prickles rising from a corky base, spines are shining and sharp growing on branchlets |
| Distribution in manipur | Origin | Native | |
| Leaf Type | Compound | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | It is a deciduous Shrub growing to 4 m (13ft 1in) | Leaf Details | Leaves are distinctlively trifoliolate with the leaf-stalk winged. Leaflets are stalkless, 2-7.5 x 1-1.7 cm, elliptic to ovate-lancelike, entire to slightly toothed, sharp-tipped, base sometimes oblique |
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