Cneoridium

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Cneoridium
Cneoridiumdumosum.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Amyridoideae
Genus: Cneoridium
Hook.f.
Species:
C. dumosum
Binomial name
Cneoridium dumosum
(Nutt.) Hook.f. ex Baill.

Cneoridium is a monotypic genus in the citrus family which contains the single species Cneoridium dumosum, known by the common name bushrue. Propagating is typically by seed, but can also be accomplished by cutting.

Description[]

Cneoridium dumosum is an evergreen shrub native to the coastal bluffs of southern California and Baja California.[1] This highly branched shrub may exceed a meter in height and sprawl about as wide. Its twigs are covered in small linear green leaves and flowers in clusters of one to three. Each flower is just over a centimeter wide with four or five rounded white petals and eight yellow-anthered white stamens.

The bunching fruits are round reddish-green berries about half a centimeter wide covered in a thin peel which is gland-pitted like that of a common citrus fruit. Each berry contains one or two spherical seeds.

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References[]

  1. ^ Moran, Reid (1962). "Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles". Madroño. 16: 272.

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