List of Rutaceae genera
Encyclopedia
There are approximatively 160 genera
in the family Rutaceae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
in the family Rutaceae
Rutaceae
Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents...
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- Achuaria Gereau
- AcmadeniaAcmadeniaAcmadenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. The species are mostly from the western Cape Province of South Africa, including:*Acmadenia alternifolia Cham.*Acmadenia argillophila I.Williams...
Bartl. & H.L.Wendl. - AcradeniaAcradeniaAcradenia is a genus of trees comprising two species from Australia:*Acradenia euodiiformis T.G.Hartley, native to New South Wales and Queensland....
Kippist - AcronychiaAcronychiaAcronychia is a genus of 44 species of plants, mainly shrubs, in the rue family Rutaceae. They have a broad distribution covering China, Southeast Asia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and the islands of the western Pacific Ocean....
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst - Lemon Aspen, et al. - AdenandraAdenandraAdenandra is a genus of evergreen shrubs of the family Rutaceae, commonly known as Buchu . The genus is native to South Africa. The plants are related to the citrus family, and have oil glands in the leaves which give off a distinctive aroma. The name Adenandra derives from Greek aden, a gland;...
Willd. - Adiscanthus Ducke
- AegleBaelBael Bael (Aegle marmelos) Bael (Aegle marmelos) (Bengal quince, stone apple, Sanskrit : विल्व, Malayalam: കൂവളം, Bengali: বেল, Hindi: बेल (Sirphal), Marathi: बेल or कवीठ (Kaveeth), , Sindhi: ڪاٺ گدرو , Sinhalese: beli, Tamil: வில்வம் is a species of tree native to India...
Correa - Bael - Aeglopsis Swingle
- Afraegle (Swingle) Engl.
- AgathosmaAgathosmaAgathosma is a genus of about 135 species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, native to the southern part of Africa. Common names include Buchu, Boegoe, Bucco, Bookoo and Diosma. Buchu formally denotes two herbal species, prized for their fragrance and medicinal use...
Willd. - Almeidea A.St.-Hil.
- AmyrisAmyrisAmyris is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek word αμυρων , which means "intensely scented" and refers to the strong odor of the resin...
P.Browne - West Indian Sandalwood - AngosturaAngostura (genus)Angostura is a genus of medicinal plant native to South America. Its bark is sometimes used in bitters.-Species:It includes the following species :*Angostura alipes*Angostura trifoliata...
Roem. & Schult. - Apocaulon R.S.Cowan
- Araliopsis Engl.
- AsterolasiaAsterolasiaAsterolasia is a genus of shrubs in the family Rutaceae which are endemic to Australia.Species include:*Asterolasia asteriscophora - Lemon Starbush*Asterolasia buckinghamii Blakely...
F.Muell. - Atalantia Correa
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- BalfourodendronBalfourodendronBalfourodendron is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Balfourodendron riedelianum, Engl....
Corr.Mello ex Oliv. - BalsamocitrusBalsamocitrusBalsamocitrus is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Balsamocitrus camerunensis...
Stapf - BoenninghauseniaBoenninghauseniaBoenninghausenia is a monotypic plant genus in the family Rutaceae. The sole species is Boenninghausenia albiflora, which occurs in Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, North Vietnam, China and Japan....
Rchb. ex Meisn. - Boninia Planch.
- BoronellaBoronellaBoronella is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Boronella koniamboensis, T.G.Hartley...
Baill. - Boronia Sm.
- BosistoaBosistoaBosistoa is an Australian genus of plants with 6 species in the family Rutaceae. Most of them are endangered due to forest clearing and encroachment by weeds. They are known colloquially as bonewoods or satinhearts.Species...
F.Muell - Bonewoods - Bouchardatia Baill.
- Brombya F.Muell.
- BurkillanthusBurkillanthusBurkillanthus is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Burkillanthus malaccensis...
Swingle
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- CalodendrumCalodendrumCalodendrum is a genus of medium-sized evergreen trees comprising two species from Africa. Calodendrum capense is a well known tree that is widely cultivated, while Calodendrum eickii is a rare forest tree from Tanzania. The botanical name comes from Greek, kalos means beautiful and dendrum means...
Thunb. - Casimiroa La Llave
- ChloroxylonChloroxylonChloroxylon swietenia is a tropical hardwood, the sole species in the genus Chloroxylon...
DC Ceylon Satinwood - ChoisyaChoisyaChoisya is a small genus of aromatic evergreen shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as Mexican Orange or Mock Orange due to the similarity of their flowers with those of the closely related Orange, both in shape and scent...
Kunth - Mexican orange - ChorilaenaChorilaenaChorilaena quercifolia, commonly known as Karri Oak, is a shrub which is endemic to the Karri forests of south-west Western Australia. It is the sole species in the genus Chorilaena....
Endl. - CitropsisCitropsisCitropsis, known as cherry orange, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae.Selected species*Citropsis articulata - West African cherry orange*Citropsis daweana*Citropsis gabunensis - Gabon cherry orange...
(Engl.) Swingle & M.Kellerm - African orange cherry - CitrusCitrusCitrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the rue family, Rutaceae. Citrus is believed to have originated in the part of Southeast Asia bordered by Northeastern India, Myanmar and the Yunnan province of China...
L. - Citrus - ClausenaClausenaClausena is a genus of evergreen plant in the subfamily Aurantioideae within the family Rutaceae, native to Asia and Australia. It was first defined by N.L. Birman in 1768. The type species is Clausena excavata....
Burm.f. - ClymeniaClymeniaClymenia is a genus in the ammonoid order Clymeniida, restricted to the Upper Devonian, characterized as with all clymeniids by a dorsal siphuncle that runs along the inside of the whorls, unusual for ammonoids....
Swingle - CneoridiumCneoridiumCneoridium is a monotypic genus in the citrus family which contains the single species Cneoridium dumosum, known by the common name bushrue.-Description:...
Hook.f. - Cneorum L. (formerly in Cneoraceae)
- ColeonemaColeonemaColeonema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. The eight known species are all from the western Cape Province of South Africa. In Australia, where they are cultivated as garden ornamentals, they are often incorrectly referred to as Diosma.Species include:*Coleonema album Bartl. &...
Bartl. & H.L.Wendl. - Breath of Heaven - Comptonella Baker f.
- Coombea P.Royen
- Correa Andrews
- CroweaCroweaCrowea is a genus of small evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae . They are native to Australia, where they occur in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. The genus is named for James Crowe, an English botanist. Croweas have pink star-shaped flowers with five petals.The genus has...
Sm. - Cyanothamnus Lindl.
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- Decagonocarpus Engl.
- Decatropis Hook.f.
- Decazyx Pittier & S.F.Blake
- Dendrosma Pancher & Sebert
- DictamnusDictamnusDictamnus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, with a single species, Dictamnus albus. It is known variously as Burning-bush, False Dittany, White Dittany, Gas-plant and Fraxinella. It is a perennial herb, native to southern Europe, north Africa and throughout...
L. - Burning-bush - Dictyoloma A.Juss.
- Diosma L.
- Diphasia Pierre
- Diphasiopsis Mendonca
- DiplolaenaDiplolaenaDiplolaena is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae . They are native to Western Australia.Species include:*Diplolaena andrewsii Ostenf. *Diplolaena angustifolia Hook. - Yanchep Rose...
R.Br. - Drummondita Harv.William Henry HarveyWilliam Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant...
- Dutaillyea Baill.
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- Echinocitrus Tanaka
- Empleuridium Sond.Otto Wilhelm SonderOtto Wilhelm Sonder was a German botanist and pharmacist who was a native of Holstein. From 1841 to 1878 he was the proprietor of a pharmacy in Hamburg. In 1846 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg.He was the author, with William Henry Harvey , of the Flora Capensis...
& Harv.William Henry HarveyWilliam Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant... - Empleurum Aiton
- Eremocitrus Swingle
- EriostemonEriostemonEriostemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. It is native to eastern Australia and includes just two species. Eriostemon australasius occurs between Fraser Island and Nowra, and is a shrub of heathlands and low open woodlands. It is also frequently cultivated in...
Sm. - ErythrochitonErythrochitonErythrochiton is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Erythrochiton giganteus, Kaastra & A.H.Gentry* Erythrochiton brasiliensis Nees & Mart.* Erythrochiton gymnanthus...
Nees & Mart. - Esenbeckia Kunth
- Euchaetis Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
- EuodiaEuodia (genus)Euodia is a plant genus in the Rutaceae family.-Species:* Euodia elleryana* Euodia hortensis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.* Euodia hupehensis* Euodia hylandii* Euodia lunuankenda* Euodia macrocarpa* Euodia pubifolia...
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. - Euxylophora Huber
- Evodiella Linden
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- Fagaropsis Mildbr. ex Siebenl.
- Feroniella Swingle
- FlindersiaFlindersiaFlindersia is a genus of 14 species of tree in the family Rutaceae. They are native to the Moluccas, New Guinea, Australia and New Caledonia.They are cultivated and planted for both timber and as a street tree...
RBr. Crow Ash, Cudgerie - FortunellaKumquatCumquats or kumquats are a group of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, either forming the genus Fortunella, or placed within Citrus sensu lato...
Swingle - Kumquat
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- GalipeaGalipeaGalipea is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Galipea dasysperma* Galipea granulosa* Galipea longiflora* Galipea ossana, DC.* Galipea panamensis* Galipea trifoliata...
Aubl. - GeijeraGeijeraGeijera is a genus in the Rutaceae family with approximately 8 species of shrubs and small trees native to Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia. The one most known to horticulture is G. parviflora, better known as the wilga. Another species, G. paniculata is known as axebreaker, due to its hard...
Schott - Wilga, Axebreakers - GeleznowiaGeleznowiaGeleznowia is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It was defined by Ukrainian-Russian botanist Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow in 1849. The type species is Geleznowia verrucosa....
Turcz. - GlycosmisGlycosmisGlycosmis is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Glycosmis crassifolia* Glycosmis decipiens* Glycosmis longisepala* Glycosmis monticola* Glycosmis perakensis* Glycosmis tomentella...
Correa
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- HalfordiaHalfordiaHalfordia is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Halfordia papuana, Laut....
F.Muell. - Haplophyllum A.Juss.
- HeliettaHeliettaHelietta is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as Barettas, Barretas, or Barrettas. The generic name honors French physician Lewis Théodore Hélie ....
Tul. - Hortia Vand.
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- LeionemaLeionemaLeionema is a genus of more than 20 species of mostly small shrubs in the family Rutaceae, most of which are endemic to eastern Australia....
(F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson. - Leptothyrsa Hook.f.
- LimnocitrusLimnocitrusLimnocitrus is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Limnocitrus littoralis...
Swingle - LimoniaLimonia (plant)Limonia acidissima is the only species within the monotypic genus Limonia. It is native in the Indomalaya ecozone to Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and in Indochinese ecoregion east to Java and the Malesia ecoregion...
L. - Lubaria Pittier
- Lunasia Blanco
- Luvunga Buch.-Ham. ex Wight & Arn.
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- MaclurodendronMaclurodendronMaclurodendron is a plant genus from the family Rutaceae. It was first described in 1982 by Thomas Gordon Hartley.It consists of six evergreen tree species in particular native to Vietnam, China, Sabah, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sarawak. They are dioecious. The leaves are opposite and the leave...
T.G.Hartley - Macrostylis Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
- MedicosmaMedicosmaMedicosma is a genus of about 22 species of shrubs and trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring from Australia to New Caledonia and New Guinea.-External links:*...
Hook.f. - Megastigma Hook.f.
- MelicopeMelicopeMelicope is a genus of about 230 species of shrubs and trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring from the Hawaiian Islands across the Pacific to tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand...
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst - Corkwood, Alani - Merope M.Roem.
- MerrilliaMerrilliaMerrillia is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Merrillia caloxylon...
Swingle - Metrodorea A.St.-Hil.
- Microcitrus Swingle
- MicrocybeMicrocybeMicrocybe is a genus of plants in the Rutaceae family, all of which are native to Australia.There are three species:*Microcybe albiflora Turcz....
Turcz. - Micromelum Blume
- MonanthocitrusMonanthocitrusMonanthocitrus is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. Species include:* Monanthocitrus oblanceolata...
Tanaka - Monnieria Loefl.
- Muiriantha C.A.Gardner
- MurrayaMurrayaThe genus Murraya comprises 12 species in the family Rutaceae, including the Curry Tree. This genus, along with genera Clausena and Glycosmis within the same family, are a major source of carbazole alkaloids. Parts of these trees are used in folk medicine and the leaves of M. koenigii are and...
L. - Curry tree - Myrtopsis Engl.
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- Naringi Adans.
- Naudinia Planch. & Linden
- NematolepisNematolepisNematolepis is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Rutaceae.The 7 species, all of which are endemic to Australia, are as follows:*Nematolepis elliptica Paul G.Wilson...
Turcz. - Neobyrnesia J.A.Armstr.
- Neoschmidia T.G. Hartley, gen. nov.
- Nycticalanthus Ducke
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- OriciaOriciaOricia is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Oricia lecomteana, Pierre* Oricia suaveolens, Verdoorn...
Pierre - OriciopsisOriciopsisOriciopsis is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Oriciopsis glaberrima, Engl....
Engl. - Orixa Thunb.
- OxantheraOxantheraOxanthera is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Oxanthera aurantium* Oxanthera brevipes* Oxanthera fragrans* Oxanthera neocaledonica* Oxanthera undulata...
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- Pamburus Swingle
- Paramignya Wight
- Peltostigma Walp.
- Pentaceras Hook.f.
- PhebaliumPhebaliumPhebalium is a genus of shrubs in the family Rutaceae, endemic to Australia. A number of species formerly included within this genus have been transferred to the genera Leionema and Nematolepis.Species include:...
Vent. - PhellodendronPhellodendronPhellodendron or Cork-tree, is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Rutaceae, native to east and northeast Asia. It has leathery, pinnate leaves and yellow, clumped flowers. The name refers to the thick and corky bark of some species in the genus.-Cultivation and uses:As an ornamental plant,...
Rupr. - Cork-tree - PhilothecaPhilothecaPhilotheca is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. Many plants formerly in Eriostemon are now in this genus....
Rudge - Phyllosma Bolus
- PilocarpusPilocarpusPilocarpus is a genus of about 13 species of plants belonging to the family Rutaceae, native to the neotropics of South America. Various species are important pharmacologically...
Vahl - PitaviaPitaviaPitavia is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Pitavia punctata, Mol....
Molina - PlatydesmaPlatydesmaPlatydesma is a genus of plants in family Rutaceae. Evidence from 2009 indicates that Platydesma is nested within the related genus Melicope and is sister to all Hawaiian Melicope species...
H.Mann - PleiospermiumPleiospermiumPleiospermium is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae.Species include:* Pleiospermium longisepalum,...
(Engl.) Swingle - Plethadenia Urb.
- Polyaster Hook.f.
- PoncirusTrifoliate orangeTrifoliate Orange, Poncirus trifoliata , is a member of the family Rutaceae, closely related to Citrus, and sometimes included in that genus, being sufficiently closely related to allow it to be used as a rootstock for Citrus...
Raf. - Trifoliate orange - PsilopeganumPsilopeganumPsilopeganum is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rutaceae.-Characteristics:It is a monotypic genus, with only a single species: Psilopeganum sinense Hemsl. .-Distribution:...
Hemsl. - Ptelea L. - Hoptree
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- Raputia Aubl.
- Rauia Nees & Mart.
- Raulinoa R.S.Cowan
- Ravenia Vell.
- Raveniopsis Gleason
- Rhadinothamnus Paul G.Wilson
- RutaRueRue is a genus of strongly scented evergreen subshrubs 20–60 cm tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia and southwest Asia. There are perhaps 8 to 40 species in the genus...
L. - Rue - Rutaneblina Steyerm. & Luteyn
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- SarcomelicopeSarcomelicopeSarcomelicope is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Sarcomelicope glauca, T.Hartley* Sarcomelicope simplicifolia T.G.Hartley...
Engl. - Severinia Ten.
- Sheilanthera I.Williams
- SkimmiaSkimmiaSkimmia is a genus of four species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the Rue family, Rutaceae, all native to warm temperate regions of Asia. The leaves are clustered at the ends of the shoots, simple, lanceolate, 6-21 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, with a smooth margin. The flowers are in...
Thunb. - Skimmia - SpatheliaSpatheliaSpathelia is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Spathelia coccinea, Proctor* Spathelia glabrescens, Planch....
L. - Spiranthera A.St.-Hil.
- Stauranthus Liebm.
- Swinglea Merr.
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- TecleaTecleaTeclea is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. There are about 30 species.Species include:* Teclea carpopunctifera* Teclea crenulata* Teclea fischeri* Teclea gerrardii* Teclea myrei* Teclea nobilis* Teclea rogersii...
Delile - TetractomiaTetractomiaTetractomia is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species :* Tetractomia majus, Hook. f....
Hook.f. - TetradiumTetradiumTetradium is a genus of nine species of trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring in temperate to tropical east Asia. In older books, the genus was often included in the related genus Euodia , but that genus is now restricted to tropical species...
Lour. - Euodia - ThamnosmaThamnosmaThamnosma is a genus of flowering plants in the rue family, Rutaceae.-Selected species:* Thamnosma africana – Sandboegoe* Thamnosma montana Torr. & Frém. – Turpentine Broom, Mohave Desert Rue* Thamnosma socotrana Balf.f....
Torr. & Frem. - Ticorea Aubl.
- ToddaliaToddaliaToddalia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the citrus family containing the single species Toddalia asiatica, which is known by the English common name orange climber. In Afrikaans it is called ranklemoentjie, and in Venda, gwambadzi. It is native to many countries in Africa and Asia. It...
Juss. - Toddaliopsis Engl.
- Tractocopevodia Raizada & V.Naray.
- TriphasiaTriphasiaTriphasia is a small genus of three species in the family Rutaceae, related to Citrus. The genus is native to southeastern Asia and New Guinea....
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