Citropsis

genus of plants
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Citropsis is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae.

Citropsis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Aurantioideae
Genus: Citropsis
Swingle & Kellerm.

It produces a fruit known as the African cherry orange. This a fruit common to Central and Western Africa, it is about the size of a tangerine. It is sometimes used as a herbal medicine. The fruit is two or three centimeters long.

The are a number of species, which differ in the details of their habit. The plant is a shrub or tree. With pointed leaflets, the leaves are up to 33 centimeters long. They are about two centimeters long and the inflorescence is a cluster of flowers with four white petals. The style may be 1.5 centimeters long.