Species of kumquat
Citrus margarita , the oval kumquat [ 4] or Nagami kumquat ,[ 5] [ 6] is a species of kumquat ;[ 1] a type of citrus fruit in the genus Citrus , family Rutaceae .[ 7] Its epithet, margarita, is Latin for pearly.[ 8]
It is first described by the Portuguese botanist João de Loureiro in 1790, in his Flora cochinchinensis under the name Citrus margarita .[ 7] [ 9] It is described again by the American botanist Walter Tennyson Swingle in 1915, as varieties of Citrus japonica .[ 10] However, recent phylogenetic analysis suggested that C. margarita is a single 'true' species.[ 1] [ 2] [ 7] [ 11]
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^ a b Swingle, Walter T. (1915). "A new genus, Fortunella, comprising four species of kumquat oranges" . Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences . 5 (5): 168–169. JSTOR 24520657 .
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^ Yasuda, Kiichi; Yahata, Masaki; Kunitake, Hisato (2015). "Phylogeny and Classification of Kumquats (Fortunella spp.) Inferred from CMA Karyotype Composition" . The Horticultural Journal . 85 (2): 115–121. doi :10.2503/hortj.MI-078 .