Taxon: Aloysia citrodora Palau

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Common names:

• lemon-verbena   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• verveine citronelle   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Zitronenstrauch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• cidrão   (Source: Sieto Ph.D. Diss.) – Portuguese
  
• salva-limão   (Source: Sieto Ph.D. Diss.) – Portuguese
  
• cedrón   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Pl Book; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Man HerbPl)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (herb fide Man HerbPl)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (for perfumes fide Flower Oils)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F Jujuy; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Tucuman

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Armada, J. & A. Barra. 1992. On Aloysia Palau (Verbenaceae). Taxon 41:88–90.
• Cabrera, A. L., dir. 1977–. Flora de la provincia de Jujuy, Republica Argentina. ["citriodora"].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. [= Lippia triphylla (L'Hér.) Kuntze].
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• 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.
• Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. [= Verbena triphylla L'Hér.].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Siedo, S. J. 2006. Systematics of Aloysia (Verbenaceae). Unpublished dissertation 64–74.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Still, S. M. 1994. Manual of herbaceous ornamental plants, ed. 4.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999 ["citriodora"].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Aloysia citrodora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Aloysia citrodora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Aloysia citrodora.

Synonyms:

• (=) Aloysia triphylla (L’Hér.) Britton
  
• (=) Lippia citrodora Kunth
  
• (=) Lippia triphylla (L’Hér.) Kuntze
  
• (=) Verbena triphylla L’Hér.
  
• (=) Zappania citrodora Lam.
  

Check other web resources for Aloysia citrodora Palau:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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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