Zanthoxylum fagara Sarg.

Shrubs or small trees to 10 m high; branchlets zigzagged, reddish brown, becoming light gray, minutely puberulent to glabrate, more or less angled, some-times ridged between the nodes, armed with paired, subulate, recurved, sharp, dark, minutely puberulent, deciduous, pseudostipular prickles 2-6 mm long. Leaves odd-pinnate, 4-9 cm long, 2-4 cm wide; petiole and rachis winged, cana-liculate above, more or less minutely appressed puberulent to glabrate, the petiole 11-24 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, the rachis 3-6 mm wide; leaflets 5-7, opposite to subopposite, obovate to broadly elliptic, acute to rounded and retuse apically, inequilateral and cuneate basally, the margins crenulate and revolute, the blade pellucid punctate marginally at the bases of the crenulations, membranaceous to subcoriaceous, sparingly minutely appressed puberulent to glabrate, 9-35 mm long, 6-21 mm wide, the lowest pair smallest, sessile to short petiolulate, the terminal leaflet decurrent to the rachis. Panicles axillary, spikelike, minutely puberulent, to 2 cm long. Staminate flowers subsessile; sepals 4, broadly obovate, ca. 1 mm long; petals 4, obovate; stamens 4, less than 1 mm long. Carpellate flowers with the pedicels to 1 mm long in fruit; sepals 4, broadly obovate, ca. 1 mm long; petals 4, obovate; carpels 2, sessile, connate basally, ca. 1 mm long. Follicles 1, obovoid, brownish, roughened, with brownish punctations, glabrous, ca. 5 mm in diameter, short stipitate, the stipe 2 mm long.

Open sandy or dry loam, in clearings or among shrubs and low trees of secondary formations at elevations of 150-450 metres. Found in moist soils in more open, primary forests, edges of woods and denser forests.

Can be grown by seedlings.