Citronella (genus)

Citronella aka Andreea is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Cardiopteridaceae described as a genus in 1832.[2][3] It is native to tropical regions of South and Central America, insular Southeast Asia, Queensland, and islands of the western Pacific.[1] The genus was formerly treated as belonging to the family Icacinaceae.[4][5]

Citronella
Citronella mucronata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Aquifoliales
Family: Cardiopteridaceae
Genus: Citronella
D.Don
Synonyms[1]
  • Chariessa Miq.
  • Briquetina J.F.Macbr.

Few species have been cultivated. Citronella mucronata, from Chile, is remarkable for its hardiness compared to other members of this genus. It is one of the most well-known of the species and has been introduced to Europe.[6][7]

Species
  1. Citronella apogon - Bolivia, NW Argentina
  2. Citronella costarricensis - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru
  3. Citronella engleriana - Rio de Janeiro
  4. Citronella gongonha - Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, NE Argentina
  5. Citronella hirsuta - New Caledonia
  6. Citronella incarum - Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
  7. Citronella latifolia - Samar
  8. Citronella lucidula - Solomon Islands
  9. Citronella macrocarpa - New Caledonia
  10. Citronella melliodora - Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia
  11. Citronella moorei - Queensland
  12. Citronella mucronata - Chile
  13. Citronella paniculata - Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Misiones
  14. Citronella philippinensis - Luzon
  15. Citronella samoensis - Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga
  16. Citronella sarmentosa - New Caledonia
  17. Citronella silvatica - Colombia
  18. Citronella smythii - Queensland
  19. Citronella suaveolens - Indonesia, New Guinea
  20. Citronella vitiensis - Fiji
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References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Don, David. 1832. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 13: 243-244 description in Latin, commentary in English
  3. Tropicos, Citronella D.Don
  4. Howard R. A. 1942d Studies of the Icacinaceae. V. A revision of the genus Citronella D. Don. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 142: 60-89
  5. Genus Citronella from Encyclopedia of Chilean Flora
  6. "Chilean plants cultivated in Spain" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
  7. Mabberley, D. 1997. The Plant-Book. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 858p.


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