Taxon: Citrus amblycarpa (Hassk.) Ochse

Common names:

• Nasnaran mandarin   (Source: Pl Cell Rep 30:889.) – English
  
• djerook leemo   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – Indonesian
  
• djeruk-limau   (Source: Cornucopia ) – Indonesian
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (in Indonesia fide Cornucopia)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock for citrus   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock for grapefruit   (although evidence of low productivity fide Fruits 60:313. 2005)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock for orange   (fide Rev UDO Agric 9:349, 354. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for citrus   (fide Pl Cell Rep 30:888. 2011)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java

References:

• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Carpenter, J. B. & P. C. Reece. 1969. Catalog of genera, species, and subordinate taxa in the orange subfamily Aurantioideae (Rutaceae).
• Citrus Crop Germplasm Committee. 1998. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Dambier, D. et al. 2011. Somatic hybridization for citrus rootstock breeding: an effective tool to solve important issues of the Mediterranean citrus industry. Pl. Cell Rep. 30:883–900. [this study tested Citrus amblycarpa as a parental donor, succeeding in obtaining somatic hybrids].
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. [= Citrus ×amblycarpa].
• Froelicher, Y. et al. 2011. New universal mitochondrial PCR markers reveal new information on maternal citrus phylogeny. Tree Genet. Genomes 7:49–61. [this study examined the origin and maternal phylogeny of cultivated citrus; it included a sample of Citrus amblycarpa that was resolved among members of the 'Micrantha' mitotype that included species of both the subgenera Papeda and Citrus (sensu Swingle)].
• León, M. et al. 2009. Fenologia de la naranja 'Valencia' sobre tres patrones en Yumare, estado Yaracuy, Venezuela. Rev. UDO Agric. 9:347–355.
• Ollitrault, P. et al. 2012. SNP mining in C. clementina BAC end sequences; transferability in the Citrus genus (Rutaceae), phylogenetic inferences and perspectives for genetic mapping. B. M. C. Genomics 13:13.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Ramin, A.-A. & A. Alirezanezhad. 2005. Effects of citrus rootstocks on fruit yield and quality of Ruby Red and Marsh grapefruit. Fruits 60:311–317.
• Tanaka, T. 1954. Species problem in Citrus: a critical study of wild and cultivated units of Citrus, based upon field studies in their native homes. In: Tanaka, T., Revisio Aurantiacearum. 9:139.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Citrus amblycarpa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Citrus amblycarpa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Citrus amblycarpa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Citrus limonellus var. amblycarpa Hassk. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Citrus amblycarpa (Hassk.) Ochse:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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