Accession Data
Citropsis daweana
Common Name: Mozambique cherry orange
Family: Rutaceae
Country of Origin: Bostwana, Caprivi - Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Description: Shrub or small tree with arching branches. Younger branches armed with robust spines up to 2 cm long. Leaves imparipinnate with 2-4 pairs of opposite leaflets and a terminal leaflet; leaflets elliptic to obovate, covered in greyish hairs, translucent gland-dots present, strongly aromatic when crushed, margin scalloped; petiole and rhachis winged. Flowers in small branched sprays, axillary or on dwarf spur-branchlets, c. 10 mm in diameter, white or lemon-yellow. Fruit spherical, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, reddish-brown, dotted with oil glands. 3
Accession Data
Accession #: 201500182
Accession Date: 2015-12-21 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1107
Quantity: 1
Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College
Provenance:
- Smith# 3612 from cultivated material collected by Dr. G. R. Bates.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eurosid II
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
SubFamily: Aurantioideae
Tribe: Citreae
SubTribe: Citrinae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, December 21, 2015.
- Citropsis at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Monday, December 21, 2015.
- Citropsis daweana at Flora of Zimbabwe. Last accessed on Monday, December 21, 2015.
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