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Taxon:  Fortunella hindsii (Champ. ex Benth.) Swingle



Summary
Genus:
Fortunella
Family:
Rutaceae
Subfamily:
Aurantioideae
Tribe:
Aurantieae
Subtribe:
Citrinae
Nomen number:
235
Place of publication:
J. Washington Acad. Sci. 5:175. 1915
Verified:
11/06/1985 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Fortunella hindsii (Champ. ex Benth.) Swingle var. chintou Swingle (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Sclerostylis hindsii Champ. ex Benth.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Atalantia hindsii (Champ. ex Benth.) Oliv.

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Reference(s)
  1. Biswas, M. K. et al. 2010. Retro-transposon based genetic similarity within the genus Citrus and its relatives. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 57:963-972. Note: this study included Fortunella hindsii; it found support for the recognition of Fortunella as "a single independent group as a genus"
  2. Carpenter, J. B. & P. C. Reece. Catalog of genera, species, and subordinate taxa in the orange subfamily Aurantioideae (Rutaceae). 1969
  3. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
  4. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  5. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 Note: Kampong Publications
  6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Fortunella+hindsii&quantity=1
  7. Garcia-Lor, A. et al. 2013. A nuclear phylogenetic analysis: SNPs, indels and SSRs deliver new insights into the relationships in the 'true citrus fruit trees' group (Citrinae, Rutaceae) and the origin of cultivated species. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 111:1-19. http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
  8. Grosser, J. W. et al. 2000. Somatic hybridization in Citrus: an efective tool to facilitate variety improvement. In Vitro Cell. Developmental Biol., Plant 36:434-449. Note: this review cites a hybrid involving Poncirus trifoliata and Fortunella hindsiifor graft stock improvement
  9. Guangdong Inst. Bot., ed. Flora Hainanica. 1964-1977
  10. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  11. Penjor, T. et al. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships of Citrus and its relatives based on matK gene sequences. PLoS One 8(4): e62574. http://www.plosone.org/
  12. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  13. Rao, N. M. et al. 2011. Chapter 3. Citrus. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, tropical and subtropical fruits. 2011 46, 49. Note: as a "sexually incompatible genus"
  14. Recupero, G. R. et al. 2005. New promising Citrus triploid hybrids selected from crosses between monoembryonic diploid female and tetraploid male parents. HortScience 40:516-520. Note: this review cited the use of tetraploid Fortunella hindsii as one the male parental species in a cross with diploid Citrus reticulata
  15. Swingle, W. T. & P. C. Reece. The botany of Citrus and its wild relatives. 1967
  16. Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 2:169. http://proseanet.org
  17. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- Note: = Citrus japonica Thunb.
Common names
English
Hong Kong kumquat –
German
Hongkong-Kumquat –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangdong 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaZhejiang 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaHong Kong  
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Zhejiang, Guangdong], Hong Kong
Economic Uses
Human food


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