Zanthoxylum acanthopodium

Zanthoxylum acanthopodium
Habitus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Genus:	Zanthoxylum
Species:	Z. acanthopodium
Binomial name
Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC.

Seeds

Zanthoxylum acanthopodium, or andaliman, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. Its range includes southern western China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, and Yunnan), Bangladesh, Bhutan, northern India and northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal), Nepal, Laos, Burma, northern Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia (northern Sumatran highlands), and Peninsular Malaysia.

Much like the closely related Sichuan pepper (Z. bungeanum), the seed pericarps are used as spices in cooking and have a similar tongue-numbing characteristic. However, in cooking, the flavour of andaliman has lemon-like notes (similar to those of lemon-grass) as well as a hint of the aromatic pandan leaf.

Phylogenetics of related species

Z. piperitum (sanshō pepper) Z. beecheyanum Z. simulans (szechuan pepper) Z. bungeanum (szechuan pepper) Z. armatum (rattan pepper) Z. acanthopodium Z. mollissimum Z. americanum (prickly ash) Z. fagara (wild lime) Z. foliolosum Z. thomasianum Z. rhodoxylum Z. petiolare all other Zanthoxylum species

Cladogram of 13 most closely related species according to the Open Tree of Life.