Acronychia is a
genus of about fifty species of plants in the rue family
Rutaceae. The leaves are simple or
pinnate, and the flowers
bisexual with four
sepals, four
petals and eight
stamens. They have a broad distribution including in India, Malesia, Australia and the islands of the western Pacific Ocean. About twenty species are
endemic to Australia.
Description
Plants in the genus Acronychia are shrubs or trees with simple or
trifoliate leaves arranged in opposite pairs and with oil
glands in the leaves. The flowers are arranged in leaf
axils either singly or in
cymes or
panicles. The flowers are bisexual, with four sepals, four petals and eight stamens. The petals are free from each other, as are the stamens. The
stigma is small, not differentiated from the
style, the fruit is a drupe and the seeds are black.[2][3]
Some species have common names including the word "
aspen", a name also applied to some Northern Hemisphere plants in the genus Populus in the family
Salicaceae.[6]
^Forster, Johann Reinhold; Forster, Georg (1775).
Characteres Generum Plantarum. London: Prostant apud B. White, T. Cadell, & P. Elmsly. p. 53. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
^"technology transfer fact sheet: Populus spp"(PDF). Forest Products Laboratory: R&D USDA. Madison, Wisconsin: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Retrieved 20 September 2010.