Monanthocitrus

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Monanthocitrus is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. General common names for the genus include spotseed-lime and monanthocitrus.Swingle, W. T., rev. P. C. Reece. [http://websites.lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter3.html Chapter 3: The Botany of Citrus and its Wild Relatives.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719055159/http://websites.lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter3.html |date=2011-07-19 }} In: The Citrus Industry vol. 1. Webber, H. J. (ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. 1967.

It is a member of the tribe Citreae in the subfamily Aurantioideae, which includes the genus Citrus. It is one of several genera in the subtribe Triphasiinae, which are known technically as the minor citroid fruit trees.[http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/citrus.html Citrus Variety Collection.] College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. University of California, Riverside.

Most of the species in this small genus have limited native ranges in Southeast Asia.

Species include:

• Monanthocitrus bispinosa{{cite journal |last=Stone |first=B.C. |title=New and noteworthy Paleotropical species of Rutaceae |journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences |volume=137 |issue=2 |year=1985 |pages=213–228 See p. 217 |jstor=4064868}}
• Monanthocitrus cornuta — endemic to Irian Jaya, Indonesia{{GRIN | Monanthocitrus cornuta | 314263 | accessdate = 25 January 2018}}
• Monanthocitrus oblanceolata — endemic to Sabah, Malaysia{{cite iucn |author=Hoo, P.K. |author2=Khoo, E. |author3=Maryani, A. |author4=Maycock, C.R. |author5=Nilus, R. |author6=Pereira, J.T. |author7=Sugau, J. |author8=Tsen, S. |date=2019 |title=Monanthocitrus oblanceolata |volume=2019 |page=e.T37782A136326487 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T37782A136326487.en |access-date=14 November 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Stone |first1=B.C. |last2=Jones |first2=D.T. |title=New and Noteworthy Rutaceae: Aurantioideae from Northern Borneo. Studies in Malesian Rutaceae, V |journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |volume=140 |issue=2 |pages=267–274 |year=1988 |jstor=4064943}}
• Monanthocitrus paludosa{{cite journal |first=W. |last=Takeuchi |title=Floristic records from the upper Sepik of Papua New Guinea: Aristolochia chrismülleriana sp. nov. (Aristolochiaceae), Monanthocitrus paludosa (Rutaceae), and Secamone timorensis (Apocynaceae) |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=114 |issue=1 |pages=51–57 |year=2013 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.114.1.5 |url=http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2013/f/p00114p057f.pdf }}