See text Murraya (/ˈmʌriə/)[2] is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae.

Plants in the genus Murraya are shrubs or trees with pinnate leaves arranged alternately, usually glandular, aromatic, and leathery to membranous in texture.

[5] The genus Murraya was first formally described in 1771 by Carl Linnaeus in Mantissa Plantarum Altera from an unpublished description by Johann Gerhard König.

[6][7] The genus name commemorates the 18th-century German-Swedish herbal doctor Johan Andreas Murray, a student of Linnaeus.

[9] Evidence from pollen morphology and multiple molecular phylogenetic studies showed that when broadly circumscribed, Murraya was not monophyletic, and treating M. sect.

[16] Species have been used in traditional medicine, with various parts of the plants used to treat fever, pain, and dysentery.

[17] In Myanmar, Murraya species are used to make thanaka, a cosmetic paste that is typically applied onto the face.