Plant Details

Accepted name:: Citrus japonica Thunb. [Rutaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
calamondin orange	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cherry orange	Other	Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
chinese orange	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cháng jīn gān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gan	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gān jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hong kong kumkuat	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn jú yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn zǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kalamansi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kumkuat	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kumquat	Other	Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
kumquet	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
limau cuwit	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
limau kasturi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
limau pagar	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
nasnaran	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
shòu xīng gān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
wild kumkuat	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
නස්නාරන්	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
园金柑	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
寿星柑	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
山橘	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
山橘叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
柑橘	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金枣	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金橘	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金橘叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金橘核	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金橘根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金橘露	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
长金柑	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruits, Bark, Young leaves		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
leaf, frond		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
leaf, root, fruit	dry plant material	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
fruit		Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Citrus madurensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 467 (1790).
Citrus margarita Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 467 (1790).
Fortunella crassifolia Swingle J. Washington Acad. Sci. 4: 172 (1915).
Fortunella hindsii (Champ. ex Benth.) Swingle J. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 175 (1915).
Fortunella japonica (Thunb.) Swingle J. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 171 (1915).
Fortunella margarita (Lour.) Swingle J. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 170 (1915).
Atalantia hindsii (Champ. ex Benth.) Oliv. in G.Bentham, Fl. Hongk.: 51 (1861).
Citrus hindsii (Champ. ex Benth.) Govaerts World Checkl. Seed Pl. 3(1): 15 (1999).
Citrus inermis Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 393 (1832).
Citrus japonica subf. crassifolia (Swingle) M.Hiroe Forest Pl. Hist. Jap. Islands 1: 217 (1974).
Citrus japonica var. fructu-elliptica Siebold & Zucc. Fl. Jap. 1: 35 (1835).
Citrus japonica subf. hindsii (Champ. ex Benth.) M.Hiroe Forest Pl. Hist. Jap. Islands 1: 217 (1974).
Citrus japonica var. madurensis (Lour.) Guillaumin Agric. Prat. Pays Chauds, n.s., 14: 121 (1932).
Citrus japonica subf. margarita (Lour.) M.Hiroe Forest Pl. Hist. Jap. Islands 1: 217 (1974).
Citrus × aurantium var. globifera Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 199 (1896).
Citrus × aurantium var. japonica (Thunb.) Hook.f. Bot. Mag. 100: t. 6128 (1874).
Citrus × aurantium subsp. japonica (Thunb.) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 199 (1896).
Citrus × aurantium subvar. madurensis (Lour.) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 199 (1896).
Citrus × aurantium subvar. margarita (Lour.) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 199 (1896).
Citrus × aurantium var. olivicormis Risso ex Loisel. in H.L.Duhamel du Monceau, Traité Arbr. Arbust., nouv. éd., 7: 95 (1816).
Citrus × aurantium subvar. spinosa Siebold & Zucc. ex Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 199 (1896).
Citrus × nobilis var. microcarpa Hassk. Flora 25(2, Beibl. 3): 43 (1842).
Fortunella bawangica C.C.Huang Rhodora 111: 537 (2010).
Fortunella hindsii var. chintou Swingle J. Arnold Arbor. 21: 130 (1940).
Fortunella japonica var. margarita (Lour.) Makino Ill. Fl. Nippon: 385 (1940).
Fortunella venosa (Champ. ex Benth.) C.C.Huang Guihaia 11: 8 (1991).
Sclerostylis hindsii Champ. ex Benth. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 3: 327 (1851).
Sclerostylis venosa Champ. ex Benth. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 3: 327 (1851).
× Citrofortunella madurensis (Lour.) D.Rivera, Obón, De la Torre & A.Barber in D.Rivera & al., Varied. Trad. Frut. Cuenca Río Segura Cat. Etnobot.: 191 (1998).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Citrus japonica	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Citrus japonica Thunb.	Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Citrus japonica Thunberg	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Citrus madurensis	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Citrus madurensis Lour.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
Citrus margarita Lour.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Fortunella crassifolia Swingle	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Fortunella hindsii (Champ.) Swingle	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Fortunella hindsii (Champ.) Swingle.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Fortunella japonica (Thunb.) Swingle	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Fortunella margarita	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Fortunella margarita (Lour.) Swingle	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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