Burkillanthus

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Burkillanthus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Aurantioideae
Genus: Burkillanthus
Swingle
Species:
B. malaccensis
Binomial name
Burkillanthus malaccensis
(Ridley) Swingle

Burkillanthus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae, containing the single species Burkillanthus malaccensis. [1] It is native to Sumatra in Indonesia. It is also native to the Malay Peninsula and Sarawak in Malaysia, but it is extirpated from the peninsula and in Sarawak it was only known from a single specimen collected in 1961. [1] Its common name is Malay ghostlime. [2]

This species is part of the same subfamily (Aurantioideae), tribe (Citreae), and subtribe (Citrinae), as genus Citrus , and as such, it is known technically as a citrus fruit tree. [2] It grows singly or in small groups in primary and secondary forest habitat. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Burkillanthus malaccensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1998: e.T32106A9679546. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32106A9679546.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Citrus Variety Collection. University of California, Riverside.