• Family : RUTACEAE
  (Rue Or Citrus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NIMBU FAMILY (नींबू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUTACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Citrus limon (L.) Osbeck
• Common name : Lemon, Lime, Rough lemon
• Vernacular name : Bara nimbu, Jambira, Pahari nimbu, Jamiri nimbu (Hindi); Malai Elumichai (Tamil); Nimma (Telugu); Jambirah (Sanskrit); Kadu limbe, Gaja limbe (Kannada); Cherunaregam, Ilumbichinaregam, Oduchukuthinaregam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Cultivated
• Comments / notes : Cultivated for its fruits.
• Flower, Fruit : February-September
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Cultivated
• Native : Southeast Asia
• World Distribution : Cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; K.S.Rao-Flowering Plants of IISC, 2009; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Citrus limon. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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