Litchi chinensis

Litchi chinensis (binomen a Petro Sonnerat anno 1782 statutum) est arbor familiae Sapindacearum, ex Asia orientali oriunda, cuius fructus dulces et sucosi comeduntur. Qui fructus semel lechia, semel lici Latinitate communi appellatus est:

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Plantae — Magnoliophyta

Classis : Magnoliopsida 
Ordo : Sapindales 
Familia : Sapindaceae 
Genus : Litchi 
Species : L. chinensis 

Litchi chinensis 
Sonn.  

Synonyma

* Nephelium litchi Cambess.

Ay assi mesmo una suerte de ciruelas, que llaman lechias, que de mas de ser sabrosissimas, nunca dan hastio, nì hazen daño, aunque coman de ellas gran cantidad ("Pruna item (lechias Chinenses vocant) non esu tantum iucundissima, sed et, quantumlibet comedas, neque noxam neque nauseam parientia").

Bibliographia

"Lici fructus arbor": Boym (1656)

Fontes antiquiores

• 1330 : Hu Si-hui, Propria ad mensam Imperatoris principia (Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, edd. et interprr., A Soup for the Qan: Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Szu-hui's Yin-shan cheng-yao [Londinii: Kegan Paul, 2000] p. 570)
• 1585 : Juan González de Mendoza^(en), Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres, del gran reyno dela China (Romae: a costa de Bartholome Grassi) p. 7. Versio Latina: Nova et succincta, vera tamen historia de amplissimo potentissimoque ... regno China (Francofurdi ad Moenum, 1589) p. 36
• 1656 : Michaël Boym, Flora Sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens (Viennae Austriae: typis Matthaei Rictii) f. C1
• 1782 : Pierre Sonnerat, Voyage aux Indes Orientales (Lutetiae) vol. 2 pp. 230-231, tab. 129 ("Le litchi, Litchi chinensis")

Eruditio

• Guibing Hu et al., "Two divergent haplotypes from a highly heterozygous lychee genome suggest independent domestication events for early and late-maturing cultivars" in Nature Genetics vol. 54 (2022) pp. 73–83
• Mohammed Saiful Islam, "Outbreak of Sudden Death with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome Among Children Associated with Exposure to Lychee Orchards in Northern Bangladesh, 2012" in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene vol. 97 (2017) pp. 949–957