Citrus L.

Native to:

Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., South Australia, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya

Introduced into:

Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central American Pacific Is., Chad, Christmas I., Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Galápagos, Gambia, Georgia, Gilbert Is., Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kansas, Korea, Leeward Is., Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madeira, Marianas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, Missouri, Morocco, Mozambique, Nansei-shoto, New Zealand North, Niger, Niue, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Romania, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Society Is., Socotra, Somalia, South Carolina, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
• Mabberley, D.J. (2022). A classification for edible citrus: an update, with a note on Murraya (Rutaceae). Telopea 25: 271-284.
• Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2008). Flora of China 11: 1-622. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

Flora Zambesiaca

• Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 341 (1754).
• Sp. Pl. 2: 782 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
• Swingle, The botany of Citrus and its wild relatives, in Webber & Batchelor, The Citrus Industry 1: 129–474 (1943)
• Tanaka, Species problems in Citrus, Revisio Aurantiacearum IX (1954)
• Townsend in Flora of Iraq 4(1): 465–473 (1980).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 341 (1754)
• Sp. Pl.: 782 (1753)