Details for: RSD 2010002, Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson, Limeberry


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson
Top Name:
Limeberry
Origin:
Donated – Florida, United States
Received by NPGS:
06 Aug 2010
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson
Top Name:
Limeberry
Origin:
Donated – Florida, United States
Received by NPGS:
06 Aug 2010
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Donated
1939.
Florida, United States
Comment: According to the donor, this accession was received at FTBG from Dade County Nursery.
06 August 2010.
Florida, United States
Comment: Received at NCGRCD.
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Limeberry
Type: Local name

Trifoliate limeberry
Type: Local name

Triphasia
Type: Site identifier
Group: CITRUS RELATIVE

RSD 2010002
Type: Site identifier

Narrative
This is a new accession. It is not known at this time how it differs from PI 539800. Swingle and Reece (1967) describe this taxon thusly:
"A glabrous shrub or small tree with terete twigs bearing paired spines in the axils of the leaves; leaves 3-foliolate, the terminal leaflet ovate with a cuneate base and a rounded emarginate tip, 2-4 X 1.5-2 cm; lateral leaflets much smaller than the terminal one (1-2-2 X 0.8-1.2 cm), broadly rounded at the tip, cuneate at the base; petiolules very short (1.5-2 cm); petioles short (3-5 mm), wingless; flowers appearing singly or 2 or 3 in the axils of the leaves; peduncles short (3-4 X 1 mm); flower buds cylindrical, 10-12 X 3-4 mm; flowers 3-merous (but with 6 stamens); sepals small (1.5-2 mm long), 3-lobed, green, persistent; petals white, 10-13 X 3.6-4.5 mm; staminal filaments slender, glabrous, 9-11 mm long, anthers oblong, 2 X 1 mm; disk annular or short-cylindric; ovary ovoid or fusiform with 3 locules, each with 1 ovule, narrowed into a slender, deciduous style with a capitate, 3-lobed stigma; fruit ovoid or subglobose, sometimes apiculate, 1.2-1.5 cm long, dull reddish-orange or crimson when fleshy ripe; peel with many small oil glands; seeds 1-3, immersed in mucilaginous pulpy flesh.
"Triphasia trifolia is very widely grown in all tropical and subtropical regions as an ornamental shrub. It is also used for hedges. The fragrant white flowers are soon succeeded on the branches by the small dull-red berries (see fig. 3-14). The foliage is handsome, a shiny dark green, and the plant usually makes a round-topped shrub that does not grow too large for dooryard plantings. Triphasia trifolia has become naturalized in certain sections of the United States, in "hammocks, fields and cultivated grounds, coastal plain, Florida to Texas," according to Small (1933, p. 760)". (RR Krueger, 08/09/2010)
Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson
Genus:
Triphasia
Family:
Rutaceae
Subfamily:
Aurantioideae
Tribe:
Aurantieae
Subtribe:
Citrinae
Nomen number:

40476
Place of publication:

Torreya 9:33. 1909
Verified:
11/07/1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Limonia trifolia Burm. f.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Limonia trifoliata L.
Triphasia trifoliata DC.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Triphasia aurantiola Lour.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishlimeberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishtrifoliate limeberry  1Citrus Crop Germplasm Committee. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Englishtriphasia  1Citrus Crop Germplasm Committee. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Swedishlimeberry  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Annotations
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Pathogens
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Citations
  • Swingle, W. T. & P. C. Reece. 1967. The botany of citrus and its wild relatives. In: Reuther, W. et al., The Citrus industry. Vol. 1. History, world distribution, botany and varieties. Revised edition 190-430. Note: View Number of accessions cited: 32
  • Swingle, W. T. 1943. The botany of citrus and its wild relatives of the orange subfamily (family Rutaceae, subfamily Auratnioideae). In: Webber, H. J. & L. D. Batchelor, The Citrus industry. Vol. 1. History, botany and breeding 129-474. Note: Univ of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles Number of accessions cited: 16
Pedigree
Description:
open pollinated seed