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Citrus
maxima (Burm.f.) Merr.
Synonym : Aurantium maximum Burm.f.
Family
: Rutaceae
Local Names
: Bablimoos, Kambilinaranga,
Pomelo
Flowering
and fruiting period:
April – November
Distribution: Native of South East Asia
Habitat: Cultivated
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic:
Yes
Uses: Fruits edible. The aromatic flowers are used to make
perfume. Fruit is a rich source of Citric acid.
Key
Characters:
Trees to 10 m high, young parts
grey-pubescent; bark greyish-brown. Leaves unifoliolate, alternate, estipulate;
petiole winged; lamina ovate or
elliptic, margin subentire or crenate.
Flowers bisexual, creamy, solitary or in axillary clusters; calyx irregularly
lobed; petals 5, oblong-obovae, glandular; stamens up to 30; ovary superior,
10-14-celled; style cylindric; stigma capitate, glandular-sticky. Fruit a
hesperidium, oblate to pyriform, greenish or yellow; seeds large, wrinkled.
