Limeberry
Micromelum minutum
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam & more
- Flowering
- January-June
How to identify Limeberry
Identify Limeberry by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Confirm leaf type: Pinnately compound.
- Confirm leaf shape: Lanceolate.
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- Confirm fruit type: Small berry.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: January-June.
- In India, compare location records such as Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Micromelum minutum
- Genus
- Micromelum
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Semi-Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, SE Asia, Sri Lanka, Malesia, Melanesia, Fiji, Tonga
- Found in India
- Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-June
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compoundrecordedLeaflets are arranged in rows along a central stalk, like a feather.
- Leaf shape
- LanceolaterecordedLong and narrow, tapering to a point, like a lance head.“The leaves are up to 300 mm (12 in) long and pinnate with seven to fifteen egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaflets 30–120 mm (1.2–4.7 in) long and 15–60 mm (0.59–2.36 in) wide on a pet” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Limeberry itself; the rest are typical of the Rutaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish“The petals are pale green or creamish, 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long and there are ten stamens that alternate in length.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- Small berryrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Limeberry itself; the rest are typical of the Rutaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Limeberry
Limeberry (Micromelum minutum) is a tree in the Rutaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam and 7 other states. It grows in semi-Evergreen forests. Flowering and fruiting run from January to June.
Uses
In practice it is long used in traditional medicine and cut for timber and furniture. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
Rutaceae
Citrus/Rue family
Limeberry belongs to the Rutaceae family.
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