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Taxon: Citrus aurantium L.

Genus: Citrus
Family: Rutaceae subfamily: Aurantioideae tribe: Citreae subtribe: Citrinae.
Nomen number: 10684
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:782. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: treated by some as the hybrid C. maxima × C. reticulata
Name verified on: 17-Dec-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Dec-1999
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Riverside (RIV).
Accessions: 53 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • bigarade   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • bitter orange   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • Seville orange   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • sour orange   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • suan cheng   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • bigaradier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • oranger amer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Bitterorangen   (Source: L. Conrad, p.c.) – German
  • Pomeranze   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • khatta   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – India
  • khushkhash   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – Israel
  • arancio   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  • arancio amaro   (Source: HerbSpices 2:211.) – Italian
  • melangolo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  • daidai   (Source: HerbSpices 2:211.) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • kaisei-to   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • laranja-azeda   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • naranja agria   (Source: CultTropS ) – Spanish
  • naranja amarga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • naranja mateca   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indo-China: Indochina

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics

References:

  • Agroforestry.net. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry - on-line resource. (Trad Tree Init)
  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. (Herbal Drugs)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Citrus Crop Germplasm Committee. 1998. pers. comm. [re. common names].
  • Conrad, L. R. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
  • Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Forest Experimental Station, Korea. 1966. Illustrated woody plants of Korea. (WPl Korea)
  • Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
  • Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Long, R. W. & O. Lakela. 1971. A flora of tropical Florida. (F TFla)
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. Telopea 7:170. [= C. × aurantium].
  • Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 19:78–82.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
  • Swingle, W. T. & P. C. Reece. 1967. The botany of Citrus and its wild relatives. (Bot Citrus)
  • Tanaka, T. 1954. Revisio aurantiacearum. 9:123.
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Citrus aurantium L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images 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.

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