Bark
Small tree with bark reddish brown, scaly; blaze pink.
Clausena anisata
Syn. Clausena odorata
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
(LC)
Local name
- Horsewood (English)
- Kattukariveppila (Malayalam)
- Kattukarveppilai (Tamil)
Tree type
Evergreen
Deciduous
Family: Rutaceae
10m
Indicated uses
Medicinal
Edible
Ornamental
Avenue
Other
Flowering & fruiting
Flowering
Fruiting
Key characters
Leaves
Alternate, spirally arranged, pinnate, 13–26 cm long, clustered at twig ends, usually ending in a single leaflet, with grey, velvety-hairy rachises becoming smooth with age.
Flower
Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, in racemes. Flowers are white, 4-merous.
Fruit / Seeds
Berry is spherical, 1.3 cm across; seeds oblong.
Did you know?
The genus Clausena was described in 1768 by Nicolaas Laurens Burman and named in honour of Norwegian clergyman and scholar Peder Clausson Friis. In tropical Africa, crushed aromatic leaves were traditionally applied to maggot-infested wounds of livestock and domestic animals to help remove maggots. Crushed leaves smell strongly of aniseed.
Distribution
Tropical & S. Africa, Indian Subcontinent to S. Central China, Trinidad-Tobago