Citrus margarita

Citrus margarita
Fruit
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Citrus
Species:
C. margarita
Binomial name
Citrus margarita
Synonyms
  • Fortunella margarita

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]

  1. ^ a b c "Fortunella margarita (Lour.) Swingle". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Citrus japonica var. margarita". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
  4. ^ "Fortunella margarita". Plants for a Future.
  5. ^ "Nagami kumquat (CRC 3877)". Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at UCR. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
  6. ^ "Fortunella margarita (Lour.) Swingle, Nagami kumquat (World flora)". Pl@ntNet. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
  7. ^ a b c "Citrus margarita Lour.". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  8. ^ Small, Ernest (2011). Top 100 Exotic Food Plants. CRC Press. pp. 339–340. ISBN 9781439856888.
  9. ^ "Citrus margarita Lour". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
  10. ^ "Fortunella margarita (Lour.) Swingle". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
  11. ^ 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.