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Citrus aurantiifolia

Scientific name: Citrus aurantiifolia (Christm.) Swingle
Botanical family: RUTACEAE

Vernacular names

(In territories with significant traditional TRAMIL use)

French Guiana:

  • citron
  • citron vert

Panama:

  • lima
  • limón
  • limón agrio

Venezuela:

  • lima
  • limón
  • limón agrio

Colombia:

  • lima
  • limón
  • limón agrio

Puerto Rico:

  • lima
  • limón
  • limón agrio

Honduras:

  • lima
  • limón
  • limón agrio

Trinidad and Tobago:

  • lime

Dominica:

  • lime

Dominican Republic:

  • limón, limón agrio, lima

Martinique:

  • sitron-vè
  • sitwon péyi

Guadeloupe:

  • sitron-vè
  • sitwon péyi
  • sitwon péyi
  • ti sitwon vè

Saint Martin:

  • sitron-vè
  • sitwon péyi

Haiti:

  • sitwon péyi
  • ti sitwon vè

Other vernacular names

Botanical description

Small tree with irregular branches up to 5 m tall, with thick, rigid, sharp thorns. Leaf elliptical, dark green, slightly leathery and aromatic, 4-8 cm x 2-5cm, petiole narrowly winged; inflorescence a raceme; flowers white, fragrant, 1.5 cm long; fruit sub-spherical, 5-6 cm long, yellow when ripe, with very acid pulp, seeds white, small, oval.

Voucher(s)

Rouzier,172,SOE

Jean Pierre,313,SLNH

Jiménez,1499,JBSD

Ochoa,234,HPMHV

Mejía,17,MAPR

Espinosa,5960,FLORPAN

Rios,1100,CECALLI

Delaigue,9,NHTT

Longuefosse&Nossin,129,HAVPM

Boulogne,TH, 9, UAG

Boulogne,TB,6, UAG


Pharmacopoeia

Ed.2

References

Disclaimer

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