Australian lime

Species from Australia

Natural species

• Citrus australasica, a species from rainforest regions of northern New South Wales and Southern Queensland with elongated yellow-green to purple fruits.
• Citrus australis, a species from south-eastern Australia with round, green fruits
• Citrus glauca, from arid inland areas of inland Australia. Small round fruits are produced in summer.
• Citrus garrawayi, is rare and endemic to the Cook District of Cape York Peninsula.
• Citrus gracilis grows in eucalypt woodland in the Northern Territory and was first described in the scientific literature in 1998.
• Citrus inodora is rare, and endemic to northern Queensland.
• Citrus maideniana may be a subspecies of C. inodora.

  Cultivars

• 'Australian Outback', developed from several desert lime varieties
• 'Australian Red Centre', a cross of finger lime and a mandarin-lemon or mandarin-sweet orange hybrid
• 'Australian Sunrise', a hybrid cross of finger lime and a calomondin which is pear shaped and orange inside
• 'Rainforest Pearl', a pink-fruited form of finger lime from Bangalow, New South Wales
• 'Sunrise Lime ', parentage unknown
• 'Outback Lime', a desert lime cultivar

  Species from Papua New Guinea

• Citrus warburgiana grows on the south coast of the Papuan Peninsula near Alatau .
• Citrus wakonai has been reported from Goodenough Island.
• Citrus wintersii, also known as Citrus papuana has, as the name suggests, a small, thin fruit, pointed at both ends. It grows near Port Moresby.
• Clymenia sp. are native to the Bismarck Archipelago but are cultivated in other areas. Clymenia is now often considered to belong within the citrus genus.
• *Clymenia platypoda
• *Clymenia polyandra has a lemon-sized round fruit, pointed at one end .

Identification