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The genus Citrus is in the family Rutaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Citrus

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Citrus assamensis R.M.Dutta & Bhattacharya	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus aurantiaca Swingle	Accepted		TRO
Citrus aurantiifolia (Christm.) Swingle	Accepted		TRO
Citrus aurantium L.	Accepted		TRO
Citrus australasica F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus australis (A.Cunn. ex Mudie) Planch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus cavaleriei H.Lév. ex Cavalerie	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus garrawayi F.M.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus glauca (Lindl.) Burkill	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus gracilis Mabb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus halimii B.C.Stone	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus hystrix DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus indica Yu.Tanaka	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus inodora F.M.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus japonica Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus junos Siebold ex Tanaka	Accepted		TRO
Citrus khasya Markovitch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus latifolia (Tanaka ex Yu. Tanaka) Tanaka	Accepted		TRO
Citrus latipes (Swingle) Yu.Tanaka	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f.	Accepted		TRO
Citrus maxima (Burm.) Osbeck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus medica L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus paradisi Macfad.	Accepted		TRO
Citrus polyandra Yu.Tanaka	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus × polytrifolia Govaerts	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus reticulata Blanco	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck	Accepted		TRO
Citrus swinglei Burkill ex Harms	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus trifoliata L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus warburgina F.M.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Citrus wintersii Mabb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 318 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Citrus. Of these 31 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 176 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Citrus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 318 species names for the genus Citrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	31	9.7%
◕	Synonym	167	52.5%
◕	Unplaced	87	27.4%
◕	Unassessed	33	10.4%

All names

The status of the 494 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Citrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	31	6.3%
◕	Synonym	338	68.4%
◕	Unplaced	91	18.4%
◕	Unassessed	34	6.9%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 318 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Citrus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	30	147	0	0	177	55.7%
	Low confidence	1	20	87	33	141	44.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Citrus, are as follows: