This was received at the Rubidoux quarantine facility and proved very difficult to index due to its incompatibility with most citrus. Release was recently applied for. It will be moved to the UCR variety collection GH and LH. It is a small bush, not a tree, so will not be in field. (EM Nauer, 02/1987) Permission to release to the field was NOT granted by the USDA. Plants at Rubidoux were turned over to Tim Williams, Curator, USDA Germplasm Repository. (EM Nauer, 10/1988)
Since this accession is still under quarantine, it cannot be distributed except under specific circumstances as determined by the appropriate regulatory agency. More information on this accession is available in Swingle (1943), pp 223-224, and its revision as Swingle and Reece (1967), p 251 (also available on line). It is interesting that the source of this accession is very close geographically to the source of the material described. Quite possibly this accession has (or had?) a limited geographic distribution. However, Stone (1985) reported "newer collections [of W. dolichophylla]...closely consistent in both appearance and in distribution...from the northern or northeastern area of New Guinea". Jones and Ghani (1987) also report Wenzelia spp from eastern New Guinea. (RRK, 10/2007)