Taxon: Citrus reticulata Blanco

Common names:

• culate mandarin   (Source: PrEcFr ) – English
  
• mandarin   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – English
  
• mandarin orange   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• mandarine orange   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Swatow orange   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• tangerine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• gan ju   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mandarinier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Mandarinen   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• Mandarinenbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Tangerine   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• santara   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – India
  
• mandarina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Italian
  
• ponkan   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• mandarina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• bergamota   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tangerina   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• mandarina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• småcitrus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock for citrus   (fide Citrus CGC, pers. comm. 1998)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for citrus   (fide Scient Hort 123:319, 321. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: progenitor of sweet orange   (fide Nature Genetics 45:65. 2013)
  
• Gene sources: progenitor of tangor   (from crosses with Citrus sinensis fide Ann Bot 111:3. 2013)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Citrus CGC, pers. comm. 1998)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Citrus reticulata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics

• probable origin s.e. Asia

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bañuls, J. & E. Primo-Millo. 1995. Effects of salinity on some Citrus scion-rootsock combinations. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 76:97–102. [this study examined the cultivar Cleopatra mandarine attributed to Citrus reticulata (see also Moya et al. 2003 J Experim Bot 54:825 for C. reshni)].
• Cantuarias-Avilés, T. et al. 2010. Tree performance and fruit yield and quality of 'Okitsu' Satsuma mandarin grafted on 12 rootstocks. Sci. Hort. 123:318–322. [this study tested a graft stock cultivar 'Sun ChuSha Kat' of Citrus reticulata, and a hybrid ('Changska mandarin') derived from a cross C. reticulata × Poncirus trifoliata].
• Citrus Crop Germplasm Committee. 1998. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Froelicher, Y. et al. 2011. New universal mitochondrial PCR markers reveal new information on maternal citrus phylogeny. Tree Genet. Genomes 7:49–61.
• Garcia-Lor, A. et al. 2013. A nuclear phylogenetic analysis: SNPs, indels and SSRs deliver new insights into the relationships in the 'true citrus fruit trees' group (Citrinae, Rutaceae) and the origin of cultivated species. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 111:1–19.
• Gmitter, F. G. et al. 2007. Citrus fruits. In: Kole. C., ed., Genome mapping and molecular breeding in plants (7 vols.). 14:265–279.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. A classification for edible Citrus (Rutaceae). Telopea 7:171.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. [= Citrus nobilis Lour.].
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Nicolosi, E. et al. 2000. Citrus phylogeny and genetic origin of important species as investigated by molecular markers. Theor. Appl. Genet. 100:1155–1166.
• 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. [this study examined the usefulness of SNP markers derived from Citrus clementina for understanding the "origin of some secondary species and important cultivars"; it confirmed the status of C. reticulata as one of the "basic taxa" in the genus, and it showed its role in the origin of most mandarin, clementine, sweet orange cultivars].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rao, N. M. et al. 2011. Chapter 3. Citrus. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, tropical and subtropical fruits. 43–60.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Swingle, W. T. & P. C. Reece. 1967. The botany of Citrus and its wild relatives.
• 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. 9:131.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. [= Citrus deliciosa Ten.].
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:135.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Xu, Q. et al. 2013. The draft genome of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Nat. Genet. 45:59–68.
• Yaacob, O. & S. Subhadrabandhu. 1995. The production of economic fruits in South-East Asia.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Citrus reticulata.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Citrus reticulata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Citrus nobilis Andrews
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Citrus reticulata Blanco:

• 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.

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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