The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Citrus

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

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

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

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 8 12 0 11 0 31 9.7%
WCSP (in review) 23 155 87 22 0 287 90.3%