Comparative Wood Anatomy of <i>Melia azedarach</i> L. and <i>Melia dubia</i> Cav.

Dheeraj Kumar; Ashutosh Pathak; Dheerendra Kumar; Sangeeta Gupta

doi:10.36808/if/2026/v152i1/170786

Comparative Wood Anatomy of Melia azedarach L. and Melia dubia Cav.

Authors

Dheeraj Kumar Wood Anatomy Discipline, Forest Botany Division, ICFRE-Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
Ashutosh Pathak Wood Anatomy Discipline, Forest Botany Division, ICFRE-Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
Dheerendra Kumar Wood Anatomy Discipline, Forest Botany Division, ICFRE-Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
Sangeeta Gupta Wood Anatomy Discipline, Forest Botany Division, ICFRE-Forest Research Institute, Dehradun

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2026/v152i1/170786

Keywords:

Melia azedarach, Melia dubia, Wood microstructure, India

Abstract

Melia is a small genus of trees occurring in the warmer parts of Asia and Australia. In India, it is said to be represented by 3 species, viz. M. azedarach L., M. dubia Cav. and M. birmanica Kurz,of which two species, viz. M. azedarach L. and M. dubia Cav. have been taken up for the present study. Morphologically, these trees are quite similar and therefore present study was undertaken to study the wood microstructure of M. azedarach and M. dubia and the results showed that the two species are different in their microstructure.

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