Kakadu Lime or Humpty Doo Lime
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''Citrus gracilis'', the Humpty Doo lime or Kakadu lime, is a straggly shrub
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
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eucalypt Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: ''Eucalyptus'', ''Corymbia'', ''Angophora'', '' Stockwellia'', ''Allosyn ...
savannah woodlands of
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
, Australia.Citrus pages, Native Australian Citrus, ''Citrus gracilis''
/ref> ''Citrus gracilis'' is similar to the New Guinea species '' Citrus wintersii'' but with much larger fruits. The leaves are small and slender, and the bark is corky. The fruit is globose, lumpy and up to in diameter.Plant profile, ''Citrus gracilis''


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* Bushfood gracilis Flora of the Northern Territory Sapindales of Australia Plants described in 1998 gracilis {{Fruit-stub