Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Citrus maxima
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.
(Burm.) Merr.
Common names
Pomelo, Shaddock, pummelo
Names in other languages (31)Adamsapfel, Pampelmuse, Pamplemousse, Pamplemoussier, Pomelo, Pamplemousse, Pomélo, Pompelmous, Pumelo, Pamplemoussier, Pumelo, Tsoha bolo, buntan, grape-fruit-imperial, grepe, jamboa, limau, pompelmo, pompelmus, shadek, toranja, toronja, you, zabon, zhu luan, 化橘红, 柚, 柚叶, 柚子, 柚核, 柚根, 柚皮, 柚花, 树葫芦, 橘红, 橘红珠
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.
maxima
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 maxima
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 18:02.
Photo of Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.
Photo: Satyaji Wibowo · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.
Photo: Светлана Царахова · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
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Photo: Jared Shorma · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
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Photo: Tom Gulya · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.
Photo: Kevin Faccenda · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
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Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:02.

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: 10 of 10 is a host of × interacts with × is eaten by × has as a parasite × has as a pathogen × is adjacent to × has its flowers visited by × co-occurs ecologically with × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of × is visited by ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

is a host of 184 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
Elsinoe fawcettii Elsinoaceae is a host of 49 not compared
Melanose Diaporthe citri Diaporthaceae is a host of 30 not compared
Elsinoe fawcettii Elsinoaceae is a host of 11 not compared
Lasiodiplodia theobromae Botryosphaeriaceae is a host of 8 not compared
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interacts with 33 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
Elsinoe fawcettii Elsinoaceae interacts with 25 not compared
Parasitoid wasp Aphytis melinus Aphelinidae interacts with 9 no location
Aphytis Aphelinidae interacts with 3 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Parasitic wasp Encarsia fasciata Aphelinidae interacts with 2 no location
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is eaten by 28 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Asian Orchid Tortrix Adoxophyes privatana Tortricidae is eaten by 1 no location
Formosan Swallowtail Papilio thaiwanus Papilionidae is eaten by 1 no location
Miltochrista Erebidae is eaten by 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Common Fruit-piercing Moth Eudocima phalonia Erebidae is eaten by 1 no location
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has as a parasite 23 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Parasitoid wasp Aphytis melinus Aphelinidae has as a parasite 5 no location
Aphytis Aphelinidae has as a parasite 2 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Bruchophagus fellis Eurytomidae has as a parasite 2 no location
Parasitic wasp Encarsia perniciosi Aphelinidae has as a parasite 1 no location
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has as a pathogen 5 organisms

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
Taxillus yadoriki Loranthaceae has as a pathogen 1 not compared
mulberry mistletoe Loranthus Loranthaceae has as a pathogen 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Citrus canker Xanthomonas citri has as a pathogen 1 not compared
Citrus nematode Tylenchulus semipenetrans Tylenchulidae has as a pathogen 1 not compared
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is adjacent to 4 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
Lasiodiplodia theobromae Botryosphaeriaceae is adjacent to 2 not compared
Botryodiplodia diplocarpa is adjacent to 2 not compared
Anthracnose Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Glomerellaceae is adjacent to 1 no location
Melanose Diaporthe citri Diaporthaceae is adjacent to 1 not compared
Showing 4 of 4, by number of studies

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 3 organisms

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
Seseria formosana has its flowers visited by Refuted 1 no location
Black Tail Bumble Bee Bombus melanopygus has its flowers visited by Refuted 1 no location
Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex has its flowers visited by Refuted 1 no location
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co-occurs ecologically with 2 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
Gigaspora decipiens Gigasporaceae co-occurs ecologically with 1 not compared
Paraglomus brasilianum Paraglomeraceae co-occurs ecologically with 1 not compared
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 2 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
Paraglomus brasilianum Paraglomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Gigaspora decipiens Gigasporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
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is 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.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Bonin Flying Fox Pteropus pselaphon Pteropodidae is visited by 1 not compared
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Acompañantes documentados

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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.