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''Citrus wintersii'', the Brown River finger lime, is a shrub native to the Brown River region in Papua-New Guinea. It was previously known as ''Microcitrus papuana''. It has, as the "finger" name suggests, a small, thin fruit, pointed at both ends. It grows near
Port Moresby (; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New Z ...
. It is reportedly rarely more than tall in the wild though specimens cultivated from seed in California have attained heights of over . Leaves are narrowly lanceolate, up to long. Fruit is green, never yellow.


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