Glycosmis macrocarpa - Large-Fruit Gin Berry

Large-Fruit Gin Berry is a shrub, up to 2 m tall with leaves alternate, pinnate, 13-27 cm long. Leaflets are 3 or 5 or rarely 6, alternate, 7.5-16 x 3-7.5 cm, oblong-elliptic or ovate-lanceshaped to inverted-lanceshaped, wedge-shaped at base, tapering at tip, acumen up to 1 cm long, bluntish at tip, more or less entire along margins, leathery, hairless; leaflet-stalks 5-10 mm long; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, prominent beneath, faint above. Flowers are borne in leaf axils, in panicled cymes, up to 3 cm long. Petals are 5, oblong-elliptic, blunt, about 3 x 1.5 mm, white or pale yellowish, obscurely glandular, hairless. Stamens are 10; filament linear, flattened. Sepals are 5, triangular, blunt, less than 1 mm long. Berries are almost spherical, constricted at base, depressed above, about 2 x 1.5 cm, wrinkled, white turning pink. Large-Fruit Gin Berry is found in Western Ghats and NE India. Flowering: March-June.