Filicium decipiens (Wight & Arn.) Thwaites
ഇരുമ്പറക്കി
| Family: | SAPINDACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Fern Tree | ||||
| Synonym: | Rhus decipiens Wight&Arn. | ||||
| Common Name: | Neeroli, Valmuriccha, Muriccha, Sanimaram | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | October-December | ||||
| Distribution: | India and Sri Lanka | ||||
| Habitat: | Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, grown as ornamental tree | ||||
| Uses: | Ornamental, Timber yielding, Fire wood. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Filiciumdecipiens are evergreen trees, bark blackish or reddish-grey, rough. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis articulate, broadly winged, swollen at base; leaflets 10-21, opposite or subopposite, sessile; lamina narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base acute, apex acute, margin entire, wavy. Flowers polygamous, pinkish-white, in axillary panicles; calyx 5 lobed; lobes imbricate, deciduous; petals 5, small; stamens 5, free, inserted within the disc; ovary superior; style hooked; stigma simple, bilobed. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, purple, shining; seed one, oblong. | ||||