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Microcitrus australasica (Australian finger lime)

Synonyms: Citrus australasica; Citrus australasica var. sanguinea; Citrus cataphracta; Microcitrus australasica var. sanguinea

Wikipedia Abstract

The Australian finger lime plant (Citrus australasica) is a thorny understorey shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest and dry rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It has edible fruits which are under development as a potential new commercial crop. According to the Swingle system it is not part of the genus citrus, but in a related genus Microcitrus.
View Wikipedia Record: Microcitrus australasica

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Howardia biclavis (mining scale)[2]
Papilio aegeus (Large citrus butterfly)[3]
Papilio anactus (Small citrus butterfly)[4]
Papilio fuscus (Smaller Helen swallowtail)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0