{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Triphasia trifolia Blanco1.129-cropped.jpg | image_caption = ''Triphasia trifolia'' foliage and fruit | taxon = Triphasia | authority = Lour. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. | synonyms = {{genus list |Echinocitrus |Tanaka}} | synonyms_ref =<ref name=POWO/> }}
'''''Triphasia''''' is a small genus of flowering plants, comprising three species, in the family ''Rutaceae''.<ref name=POWO>{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35992-1 |title= Triphasia Lour. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=July 3, 2025}}</ref><ref name=COL>{{cite web |url= https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/82BG |title= Triphasia Lour. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Catalogue of Life |publisher=Species 2000 |access-date=July 3, 2025}}</ref> The genus is related to ''Citrus'' and is native to southeastern Asia and New Guinea.<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?12397 ''Triphasia''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924075531/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?12397 |date=2015-09-24 }}</ref><ref name=rhs>Huxley, A, ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening'' 3: 697. Macmillan {{ISBN|0-333-47494-5}}.</ref>
They are evergreen shrubs growing to 1–3 m tall, with trifoliate leaves. The flowers are fragrant, white, with three to five petals. The fruit is an edible red hesperidium similar to a small ''Citrus'' fruit.<ref name=rhs/><ref name=pfaf>Plants for a Future: [http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Triphasia+trifolia ''Triphasia trifolia'']</ref>
;Species *''Triphasia brassii'' <small>(C.T.White) Swingle</small> – New Guinea *''Triphasia grandifolia'' <small>Merr.</small> – Philippines *''Triphasia trifolia'' <small>(Burm.f.) P.Wils.</small> – Malaysia
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Category:Aurantioideae Category:Aurantioideae genera Category:Taxa named by João de Loureiro