Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Citrus medica L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Citrus medica
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
L.
Common names
Citron
Names in other languages (141)Acimboga, Acimbogo, Apfel aus Medien, Begpura, Bijapuraka, Bijaura, Billey kidrane, Bulid, Cederappelen, Cedernfrucht, Cedrat, Cedratzitrone, Cedrizitrone, Cedro, Cedro limón, Cedrāts, Chitru, Chitră, Cidra, Cidracuahuitl, Cidral, Cidrao, Cidras figuradas, Cidrão, Cimboa real, Ciotrón, Citro, Citrona, Citronas, Citronatowa citrona, Citronnier des Juifs, Cytron, Cédrat (FR), Cédrat, Cédratier, Citron à parfum, Cédratier, Cédratier, Cédrat, Etrog, Jeruk sukade, Jora tenga, Judenapfel, Kabbad, Khatta nabbu, Limau susu, Limea, Limette (EN), Limón cidra, Manao ripon, Manao-khwai, Maru-bushukan, Mawo-yao, Mfurungu, Murundra kapu, Naronger, Naronja, Poncidre, Poncil, Sedratez, Shouk-ta-kwah, Sitron, Sitron (Ağaçkavunu), Sitronaatsitroon, Sitrun, Som manao, Som-mu, Somma-ngua, Sukaattisitruuna, Sukadeboom, Sukatcitron, Sukatsitron, Thanh yên, Toronja alimonada, Toronja dedos, Tsoha kapo, Turunj, Vaistinis citrinmedis, Vëëx, Xiang yuan, Zedernapfel, Zedernfrucht, Zedrat-Zitrone, Zedrate, Zidrondo, Zitronat-Zitrone (DE), Zitronatzitrone, ağaç kavunu, cedrato, cedrát, cidreira, cidro, citronatni citronovec, citrónovník médsky, cédrat, medischer Apfel, näsasidrunipuu, poncem, suckatcitron, toronja, Četrun, Κιτριά, Лимун, Цитрон, אתרוג, أترج, الأترج, بالنگ, ترنج, تفاح ماهي, قارص, چڪوترو, नागरङ्गफलम्, बिमिरो, महाळुंग, জৰাটেঙা, બીજોરા, ଟଭାଲେମ୍ବୁ, நாரத்தம், ಹೇರಳೆಕಾಯಿ, ഗണപതിനാരകം, มะงั่ว, ส้มโอมือ, ትርንጎ, ᱡᱟ.ᱢᱵᱤᱨ ᱫᱟᱨᱮ, シトロン, マルブシュカン, 云南野香橼, 云南香橼(变种), 佛手, 佛手柑, 佛手柑根, 佛手花, 佛手露, 佛手(佛手柑), 佛手(变种), 枸橼皮, 枸櫞, 树葫芦, 香橼, 香橼*(枸橼), 시트론, Citroen, Muli
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Sapindales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Rutaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Citrus
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
medica
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Citrus medica
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-12 18:13.
Photo of Citrus medica L.
Photo: S.MORE · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Citrus medica L.
Photo: Patricia Rose · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Citrus medica L.
Photo: The Great Walter · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Citrus medica L.
Photo: S.MORE · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Citrus medica L.
Photo: S.MORE · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Citrus medica L.
Photo: Patricia Rose · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:13.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 9 of 9 is a host of × interacts with × has as a parasite × is eaten by × is adjacent to × has as a host × has as a pathogen × is a symbiont of × has its flowers visited by ×

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is a host of 146 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Anthracnose Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Glomerellaceae is a host of 14 not compared
Citrus tristeza virus Closteroviridae is a host of 9 no location
Seuratia millardetii Seuratiaceae is a host of 9 no location
Elsinoe fawcettii Elsinoaceae is a host of 6 not compared
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interacts with 29 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Lime Swallowtail Papilio demoleus Papilionidae interacts with 3 not compared
Hendersonia Phaeosphaeriaceae interacts with 2 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Parasitoid wasp Aphytis lingnanensis Aphelinidae interacts with 2 no location
Capnodium citri Capnodiaceae interacts with 2 not compared
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has as a parasite 19 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Homalotylus albiclavatus Encyrtidae has as a parasite 3 no location
Leptomastix nigrocoxalis Encyrtidae has as a parasite 2 no location
Parasitoid wasp Aphytis lingnanensis Aphelinidae has as a parasite 2 no location
Homalotylus indicus has as a parasite 2 no location
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is eaten by 15 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Cacao Armyworm Tiracola plagiata Noctuidae is eaten by 1 no location
Red Coffee borer Polyphagozerra coffeae Cossidae is eaten by 1 no location
Ladoffa sannionis Cicadellidae is eaten by 1 no location
Hishimonus phycitis Cicadellidae is eaten by 1 no location
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is adjacent to 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Amylosporus campbellii Bondarzewiaceae is adjacent to 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

has as a host 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Citron Citrus medica Rutaceae has as a host 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

has as a pathogen 1 organism

This term does declare that the organism harms this species. It is a narrow block, and it cannot be the only one that is read: the most frequent term in the catalogue is the one above, which declares no harm, so much of what a reader would call a pest arrives there instead.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Citrus canker Xanthomonas citri has as a pathogen 1 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

is a symbiont of 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Fungi Including Lichens Fungi is a symbiont of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at kingdom level.
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae has its flowers visited by 1 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

This agronomic reading comes from a source reserved for internal use, so it is not shown here.

Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.