Micromelum Falcatum
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Micromelum Falcatum
''Micromelum'' is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. Description The genus includes evergreen and deciduous shrubs and trees. The leaves are glandular and aromatic, containing essential oils. They are alternately arranged. They are usually pinnate, divided into up to 23 leaflets, except for ''M. diversifolium'', which sometimes has undivided leaf blades. The leaflet edges are smooth or toothed. There are sometimes glandular stipules. The inflorescence is a large panicle, sometimes flat-topped like a corymb, growing from the leaf axils or at the ends of branches. The flowers have five narrow petals in shades of green, white, or yellow, borne in a hairy, cup-like calyx with five lobes or five separate sepals. The odor of the flowers has been described as "malodorous" and "foetid". There are 10 stamens and 1 to 5 gynoecium, styles. The genus is noted for the unusual curving or twisting of the chambers in the Ovary (botany), ovary. The fruit is a Berr ...
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Micromelum Minutum
''Micromelum minutum'', commonly known as limeberry, dilminyin (east Arnhem Land). kimiar margibur ( Murray Island), tulibas tilos (Philippines), sesi (Indonesia) and samui (Thailand), is a species of small tree or shrub in the citrus plant family Rutaceae. It occurs from India and Indochina to Australia. It has pinnate leaves with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaflets, hairy, pale green or creamish, scented flowers arranged in large groups and yellow to orange or red, oval to spherical berries in dense clusters. Description ''Micromelum minutum'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of but also flowers and forms fruit as a dense shrub. The leaves are up to long and pinnate with seven to fifteen egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaflets long and wide on a petiolule up to long. The flowers are borne in large, hairy, scented groups long, each flower on a pedicel up to long. The petals are pale green or creamish, long and there are ten stamens that alternate in length. Flowe ...
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