Genus Citronella

Species in the genus Citronella of plants

Citronella mucronata - It reaches up to 10 m and 1 m in diameter. The bark is dark gray and rough. The leaves are alternate, leathery, the edge is entire or toothed, ovate or oblong with the acute apex which ends in a mucro. The leaves are about 4,5-6 long and 2,5–4 cm and wide, with domatia in the axils of the side veins, and the veins are yellow, the leaves are glossy green above, and paler bellow. Small petioles. The flowers are hermaphrodite and whitish yellow and arranged in terminal panicles 4–8 cm long. The calyx is made up by 5 sepals, the corolla has 5 free petals. The fruit is a spherical drupe about 1-1.2 cm in diameter which is purple when mature.