Citrus neocaledonica explained

Citrus neocaledonica, synonym Oxanthera neocaledonica, the large leaf oxanthera, is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia.^[1]

Taxonomy

Citrus neocaledonica was originally named as a member of the genus Citrus by André Guillaumin in 1911,^[2] but the false oranges were moved to a novel genus Oxanthera in the Swingle and Tanaka systems of citrus taxonomy. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Oxanthera species clustered within Citrus, which makes this species a member of that genus.^[3]

References

• Jaffré, T. et al. . 1998 . Oxanthera neocaledonica . 1998 . e.T35305A9924113 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T35305A9924113.en . 17 November 2021.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Citrus neocaledonica Guillaumin . Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021-09-10 .
2. Benjamin C. Stone (1985). "New and noteworthy palotropical species of Rutaceae", Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 137, pp. 213-228
3. Bayer . R.J. . etal. 2009 . A molecular phylogeny of the orange subfamily (Rutaceae: Aurantioideae) using nine cpDNA sequences.. American Journal of Botany . 96 . 3 . 668–685 . 10.3732/ajb.0800341 . 21628223.