Plant Details

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

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bearss lime	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
lime	Other	ISO Catalogue (2009)
lime oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
lime oil, cold-pressed	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
lime oil, expressed	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
lime, persian type	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
limette, type perse	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
oil of lime expressed, persian type	Other	ISO Catalogue (2009)
persian lime	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	fresh peel of the fruit, crushed whole fruit	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
fruit	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
	oil	ISO Catalogue (2009)
pericarp	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Citrus × aurantiifolia var. latifolia Yu.Tanaka Stud. Citrol. 3(2): 183 (1930).
Citrus × aurantiifolia subsp. latifolia (Yu.Tanaka) S.Ríos, D.Rivera & Obón in D.Rivera & al., Varied. Trad. Frut. Cuenca Río Segura Cat. Etnobot.: 101 (1998), with incorrect basionym and basionym ref.
Citrus × limorosea D.Rivera, F.Méndez & Obón in D.Rivera & al., Varied. Trad. Frut. Cuenca Río Segura Cat. Etnobot.: 129 (1998).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Citrus latifolia	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
Citrus latifolia (Tanaka Ex Yu. Tanaka) Tanaka	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Citrus latifolia Tanaka	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) ISO Catalogue (2009)

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