010112:Tree for ID from Meghalaya

[Mayur Nandikar]

Dear all,

Please ID following tree species....

Photographed from : Experimental Botanical Garden, UMIYAM, Near Barapani Dam, Shillong 

Date: 11th Nov. 2012,

Habitat: Cultivated (plant of evergreen forest)

Habit: A small tree

Leaves: with broadly winged, foliaceous petiole, trifoliate. 

Flowers not seen

Fruits: scarlet to yellow coloured, rounded to elliptic 0.5 x 0.5 cm.

Mr. Rabha, Botanist from Garden, told me the name of this plant but somehow I forgot. He also added this plant species is highly medicinal.  

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Mayur D. Nandikar,
Department of Botany,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur.

09421969757

[ushadi Micromini]

sorry cant tell you what it is
but
this poor thing itself seems to be infected or deficient in some minerals..
the leaf does not look healthy...

if it was in my garden I would worry and have it looked at...
usha di

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Usha di
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[Mayur Nandikar]

Ohhh....finally the puzzle of my mind got solved....Thanks to Mr. Rabha..I have written earlier it is endemic but its not. ....

It is Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC.  (Rutaceae) an evergreen shrub occurring from Northern India and the Tibetan highlands across to Eastern and Southeast Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia). It is found at altitudes of c. 1000 to 2500 m or even higher than 3000 m.

Thank you Usha di ...for your efforts. 

It may be faceing deficiency of some minerals but dosent matter finally got the proper ID. 

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Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar,
Research Student,

Department of Botany,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur.

07507013607

[J.M. Garg]

I think it is Zanthoxylum armatum DC. rather than Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC. as per keys in BSI Flora of India.

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With regards,
J.M.Garg