{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Atalantia monophylla (L.) Correa..jpg | image_caption = ''Atalantia monophylla'' | taxon = Atalantia | authority = Corrêa, nom. cons.<ref>Corrêa da Serra, J.F. 1805: Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 6: 383, 385-386.</ref><ref name=POWO>{{cite POWO |title=''Atalantia'' Corrêa |id=331374-2 |access-date=23 October 2024}}</ref> | type_species = ''Atalantia monophylla'' | type_species_authority = DC. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. | synonyms = {{Species list | Dumula | Lour. ex Gomes | Gonocitrus | Kurz | Helie | M.Roem. | Malnaregam | Adans. | Malnerega | Raf. | Phantis | L. ex Adans. | Rissoa | Arn. | Sclerostylis | Blume | Severinia | Ten. }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=POWO/> }} '''''Atalantia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, the Rutaceae.<ref name=swing>Swingle, W. T., rev. P. C. Reece. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719055159/http://websites.lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter3.html Chapter 3: The Botany of ''Citrus'' and its Wild Relatives.] In: ''The Citrus Industry'' vol. 1. Webber, H. J. (ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. 1967.</ref><ref name=yah>Yahata, M., et al. (2006). [http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/131/6/764.full.pdf Production of sexual hybrid progenies for clarifying the phylogenic relationship between ''Citrus'' and ''Citropsis'' species. ''Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science'' 131(6), 764-69.]</ref>
==Taxonomy== The genus is placed in the subfamily Aurantioideae, which also includes the genus ''Citrus''.<ref name=AppeBaylHeslGrop21/> It has been placed in the tribe Aurantieae and subtribe Citrinae, which are known as the citrus fruit trees.<ref name=swing/><ref name=ucr>[http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/citrus.html Citrus Variety Collection.] College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. University of California, Riverside.</ref> ''Atalantia'' and the genus ''Citropsis'' are also called near-citrus fruit trees.<ref name=swing/>
===Species=== {{As of|2024|October}}, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:<ref name=POWO/> {{Div col|colwidth=20em}} *''Atalantia acuminata'' <small>C.C.Huang</small> *''Atalantia buxifolia'' <small>(Poir.) Oliv. ex Benth.</small> *''Atalantia ceylanica'' <small>(Arn.) Oliv.</small> *''Atalantia citroides'' <small>Pierre ex Guillaumin</small> *''Atalantia dasycarpa'' <small>C.C.Huang</small> *''Atalantia fongkaica'' <small>C.C.Huang</small> *''Atalantia guillauminii'' <small>Swingle</small> *''Atalantia henryi'' <small>(Swingle) C.C.Huang</small> *''Atalantia kwangtungensis'' <small>Merr.</small> *''Atalantia lauterbachii'' <small>(Swingle) Govaerts</small> *''Atalantia linearis'' <small>(Blanco) Merr.</small> *''Atalantia macrophylla'' <small>(Oliv.) Kurz</small> *''Atalantia monophylla'' <small>DC.</small> *''Atalantia paniculata'' <small>Warb.</small> *''Atalantia racemosa'' <small>Wight ex Hook.</small> *''Atalantia retusa'' <small>Merr.</small> *''Atalantia rotundifolia'' <small>(Thwaites) Yu.Tanaka</small> *''Atalantia roxburghiana'' <small>Hook.f.</small> *''Atalantia sessiliflora'' <small>Guillaumin</small> *''Atalantia simplicifolia'' <small>(Roxb.) Engl.</small> *''Atalantia wightii'' <small>Yu.Tanaka</small> {{Div col end}}
==Ecology== {{unreferenced section|date=September 2021}} ''Papilio polymnestor'', the blue Mormon, a large swallowtail butterfly from South India and Sri Lanka can be found near ''Atalantia''. ''Phyllocnistis citrella'', the citrus leafminer, is a moth of the family Gracillariidae whose larvae are considered a serious agricultural pest on citrus species, such as ''Atalantia''. ''Macaldenia palumba'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae whose larvae feed on ''Atalantia''.
== See also == * List of Rutaceae genera
== References == <references>
<ref name=AppeBaylHeslGrop21>{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Appelhans |first1=Marc S. |last2=Bayly |first2=Michael J. |last3=Heslewood |first3=Margaret M. |last4=Groppo |first4=Milton |last5=Verboom |first5=G. Anthony |last6=Forster |first6=Paul I. |last7=Kallunki |first7=Jacquelyn A. |last8=Duretto |first8=Marco F. |date=2021 |title=A new subfamily classification of the ''Citrus'' family (Rutaceae) based on six nuclear and plastid markers |journal=Taxon |volume=70 |issue=5 |pages=1035–1061 |doi=10.1002/tax.12543 |name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free |hdl=11343/288824 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Category:Atalantia Category:Aurantioideae genera
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