Common Names
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Common Names in Burmese:
Shauk-Nu, Shauk-Waing
Common Names in Czech:
Kaffir Citrus
Common Names in Danish:
Kaffir Lime
Common Names in Dutch:
Djeroek Poeroet, Indonesische Citroenboom, Kaffir Limoen
Common Names in English:
Indonesian Lime, Indonesian Lime Leaves, Kaffir Lime, Makrut Lime, Mauritius Papeda, Porcupine Orange, Thai Bai Makrut, Thai Lime, Wild Lime
Common Names in Estonian:
Kaffir Laimilehed
Common Names in French:
Combava, Limettier Hérissé
Common Names in German:
Indische Zitronenblätter, Indonesische Zitronenblätter, Kaffernlimette, Kaffirlimette, Kaffirzitrone
Common Names in Hebrew:
Aley Kafir Laim, Ali Qafir Laym, עלי קפיר ליים
Common Names in Hungarian:
Kaffercitrom, Kaffir Citrom és Levél
Common Names in Indonesian:
Daun Jeruk Purut
Common Names in Japanese:
コブミカン, Kobumikan
Common Names in Japanese Translitera:
Ko-Bu-Mi-Ka-N
Common Names in Khmer:
Kraunch Soeuth, Slirk-Krote Sirk
Common Names in Lao:
Kok Mak Khi Hout
Common Names in Malay:
Daun Limau Purut, Limau Purut
Common Names in Spanish:
Hojas De Lima Cafre, Hojas De Lima Kaffir
Common Names in Swedish:
Kafirlime
Common Names in Tamil:
Nardanga
Common Names in Thai:
? Bai Makrut ?, ? Makrut ?, ? Makut ?, มะกรูด, มะกูด, ใบมะกรูด, Bai Makrut, Luuk Makrut, Magood, Magrood, Makrut, Makut
Description
Family Rutaceae
The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles, and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.
Genus Citrus
Evergreen
, small trees
or shrubs
, often spiny
. Leaves simple
, alternate, glandular
punctate
, petiole
winged
or margined
. Flowers perfect
or staminate
, solitary or clustered in axillary
racemes
. Calyx 4-5-lobed, glabrous
or pubescent
. Petals (4-) 5(-8). Stamens 4-10 times the petals, polyadelphous
. Ovary 10-14-locular, ovules biseriate
or collateral
. Fruit a fleshy
hesperidium
, globose
to mamillate-oblong to oblate
, rind
tight or loose
, with oil glands
. Seeds embedded
in pulpy vesicles
.
Most or all of the species are cultivated, derived from the native species
of tropical
and subtropical
regions of SE. Asia. Because of its great economic importance, domestication
, cultivation and hybridization of the species has led to many varieties and forms, thus providing taxonomic
problems. The following account of the species is primarily based on the work of Tanaka & Swingle with modifications in the treatment of the varieties.
Tanaka has described over 100 species. A genus widely cultivated.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. • Flower Color: near white, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 8-10' tall.
Biology
Growth
Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 6.0
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10a, 10b, 11. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : DC. Publication : Cat. Hort. Monsp. 97.An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Citrus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 631 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
C. acida · C. adami · C. alata · C. albida · C. amara · C. amblycarpa (Nasnaran Mandarin) · C. amblycarpa djeruk lime · C. ampullacea · C. angulata · C. annamensis · C. anonyma · C. arethusa · C. articulata · C. asahikan · C. assamensis · C. aurantiaca · C. aurantiacum · C. aurantiata 'Chinese Citron' · C. aurantifolia · C. aurantifolia latifolia · C. aurantifolia murgetana · C. aurantifolia 'Paduk' · C. aurantifolia 'Persian Lime' (Lime) · C. aurantifolia x (Mexican Lime) · C. aurantifolium · C. aurantiifolia (West Indian Lime) · C. aurantiifolia 'Bearss' · C. aurantiifolia 'Breegold' · C. aurantiifolia Indian lime · C. aurantiifolia key lime · C. aurantiifolia 'Lima Bears' · C. aurantiifolia 'Mexican' · C. aurantiifolia 'Tahiti Lime' · C. aurantiifolia x Fortunella · C. aurantiifolia × limon · C. aurantioides · C. aurantium (Seville Orange) · C. aurantium 'Aber's Narrowleaf' · C. aurantium amara · C. aurantium aurantium (Seville Orange) · C. aurantium bergamia (Bergamot Orange) · C. aurantium 'Bigaradier Apepu' · C. aurantium 'Bittersweet' · C. aurantium 'Bouquetier de Nice' · C. aurantium 'Bouquet de Fleurs' · C. aurantium dulcis · C. aurantium f. deliciosa · C. aurantium f. grandis · C. aurantium f. intermedia · C. aurantium f. natsudaidai · C. aurantium 'Gou-tou Cheng' · C. aurantium L. var. myrtifolia Ker Gawl. · C. aurantium saponacea · C. aurantium 'Sauvage' · C. aurantium 'Seville' · C. aurantium sinensis · C. aurantium 'Smooth Flat Seville' · C. aurantium var. dulcis · C. aurantium var. myrtifolia · C. aurantium var. myrtifolia 'Chinotto' (Myrtle-Leaved Sour Orange) · C. aurantium 'Willowleaf' · C. aurantum · C. auraria · C. aurata · C. aurea · C. australasica · C. australasica var. australasica · C. australasica var. sanguinea · C. australis · C. balotina · C. benikoji · C. bergamia · C. bergamia bergamia (Bergamot Orange) · C. bergamia bergamot · C. bergamia 'Fantastico' · C. bergamia 'Feminello' · C. bergamia mellarosa · C. bergamota · C. bicolor · C. bigaradia (Bigarade Orange) · C. bigena · C. boholensis · C. buxifolia · C. calamondin · C. calot · C. canaliculata · C. canariculata · C. cataphracta · C. cavaleriei · C. cedra · C. cedrata · C. celebica · C. chachiensis · C. changshan-huyou · C. chilensis · C. 'Chironja' · C. chrysocarpa · C. 'Clem-Yuz 3-3' (Ten-Degree Tangerine) · C. 'Clemenpons' · C. clementina
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Further Reading
- A naturalist in Brazil; the record of a year's observation of her flora, her fauna, and her people, by Konrad Guenther translated by Bernard Miall Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. ENG url p. 384.
- Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ fr das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 311, p. 421.
- Bulletin de gographie botanique. Le Mans: Au sige de la Socit, 1911-1919. FRE url p. 236.
- Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. Compiled by the Royal Society of London. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1867-1902 [etc.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914-25. ENG url p. 652.
- Citrus products by James B. McNair. Chicago, 1926-27. ENG url p. 192.
- Die Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Su?dsee /von Karl Schumann und Karl Lauterbach. 1901 Leipzig: verlag von Gebru?der Borntraeger, 1901 [i.e. 1900] GER url p. 377.
- Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. ENG url p. 114, p. 139, p. 165, p. 167, p. 168, p. 174, p. 181, p. 182, p. 67, p. 82, p. 83, p. 83, p. 86, p. 91, p. 92, p. 94.
- Journal of agricultural research. Washington, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1913-1949.. ENG url p. 12, p. 349, p. 360.
- Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller lnder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 268, p. 536, p. 599, p. 702, p. 775, p. 961.
- L'Agricoltura coloniale. Firenze, Istituto agronomico per l'Africa italiana [etc.] ITA url p. 476.
- Notulae systematicae. Paris: Laboratoire de phanrogamie du Musum national d'histoire naturelle, 1909-1960. FRE url p. 128, p. 394.
- Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands / New York Academy of Sciences. New York, N.Y.: The Academy, 1919- url p. 355.
- The Hawaiian forester and agriculturist. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1904-1933. ENG url p. 80.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 20, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 20, 2007:
- Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1672044
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15827052
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771927-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 771927-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 606078
Footnotes
- "Citrus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 19. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
