I did reply to this question in details a while back but it may have got lost. I'll try to give as good an answer again. First this is a cultivar of C. sinensis. As has been pointed out already several times by various people this week, the problems stem from the fact that most academics treat plants at a specific level, ignoring anything sub-specific sometimes, sub-variety nearly all the time. Due to the mixing of old names with the new, the name gets first attached to a species, then to another because it is a synonym or by mistake - yes experts make mistakes sometimes. When one goes back in time the origin may be a cultivar name as is the case here. Added to the botanical confusion is the linguistic confusion. Mosambi becomes Mausambee, Mōsāmbī, Mōzāmbi etc. then enter the scripted names মোসাম্বি, ಮೊಸಂಬಿ, मौसम्बी , मोसम्बी , मोसाम्बी , मोज़ाम्बि , मोसंबी etc. None of these is validated. Depending on how these names were created they may be correct or not, correct in a language not in another but using the same script. In my mind the correct name for this cultivar is: *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck ' Mosambi' Therefore matching it with simply the species *Citrus* × *sinensis *(L.) Osbeck is not completely wrong. It may well be that the name Mosambi is applied to some other species in some parts of India but it has to be displayed next to the name in order to avoid perpetuating the confusion. I will leave this with you all to comment on and give you the picture as I see it now at the end of the week, Perhaps by then you will have changed my mind.
ref. CHAPTER 3 - The Botany of Citrus and Its Wild Relatives BY WALTER T. SWINGLE Revised by Phillip C. Reece < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter3.html >. CHAPTER 4 - Horticultural Varieties of Citrus BY ROBERT WILLARD HODGSON < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter4.html >. as complements to *The Citrus Industry * Revised Edition, University of California, Division of Agricultural Sciences, based on above, 1967-1989 . < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Vol1TOC.html >. On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 6:58:21 PM UTC+10, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > Not able to resurface I am reviving the older thread through this link > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Mousambi/indiantreepix/W13Ft2_GnR4/F53ETzybKX8J > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > >
