Family: Rutaceae
Synonym: Cranzia bilocularis (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze
Vernacular names: Karakil Moothassari (malayalam)
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
Distribution: Southern Western Ghats
Flowering and fruiting: February-May
Key identification features: Evergreen dioecious trees, reaching up to 25 m in height, feature a yellowish-grey bark and trifoliate, alternate leaves with elliptic to oblong leaflets. The leaves clear-gland dotted, and the flowers are small, yellow, and clustered. Male flowers have a saucer-shaped calyx and orbicular petals, while female flowers have a superior ovary and produce a fleshy, glandular berry as fruit.
Uses: Wood is tough and used for helves and handles, cartwheels and spokes. Root decoction given in biliousness; wood used in eye and ear diseases; decoction of wood boiled in oil used in rheumatic swellings, asthma and leprosy.
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