Taxon: Citrus unshiu Marcow.

Common names:

• Satsuma mandarin   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – English
  
• Satsuma orange   (Source: T. Tanaka) – English
  
• mandarinier satsuma   (Source: Les Agrumes ) – French
  
• Satsuma   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• unshū-mikan   (Source: Citrus CGC, p.c.) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• gyulnamu   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide L Edible Pl; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for oranges   (fide Pak J Biol Sci 5:509. 2002)
  

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Distributional range:

• widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics

• probable origin Japan

References:

• Bhusal, R. C. et al. 2002. Selection of rootstocks for flooding and drought tolerance in citrus species. Pakistan J. Biol. Sci. 5:509–512. [this study tested a complex hybrid (Citrus unshiu × C. sinensis) × C. reticulata that showed drought tolerance].
• 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. [source of 'Okitsu Satsuma mandarin'].
• Carpenter, J. B. & P. C. Reece. 1969. Catalog of genera, species, and subordinate taxa in the orange subfamily Aurantioideae (Rutaceae). [lists as C. unshiu (Makino) Marcow.].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. [= C. reticulata ‘Unshiu’].
• Citrus Crop Germplasm Committee. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Courboulex, M. & H. de Lorrain. 1997. Les agrumes: oranges, citron, pamplemousses, kumquats. [re. French common names].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forest Experimental Station, Korea. 1966. Illustrated woody plants of Korea. ["unshu"].
• 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 of cultivated citrus; it included six samples of Citrus unshiu; these samples clustered in the 'Mandarin mitotype' one of the seven recognized].
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Singh, R. & Nath. 1969. Proc. Int. Citrus Symp. 1:439. [= C. reticulata var. unshiu].
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. [= C. reticulata ‘Unshiu’].
• 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. 9:129.
• 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). 2:136.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [= C. reticulata Blanco].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Citrus nobilis var. unshiu Swingle
  (previously associated with 106 accessions)
• (≡) Citrus reticulata subsp. unshiu (Marcow.) D. Rivera et al.
  

Check other web resources for Citrus unshiu Marcow.:

• 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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