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:
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").

Notae

Bibliographia 

 Fontes antiquiores
 1330 : 
 1585 : 
 1656 : 
 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

Nexus externi 

Fructus
Fruges Asiae orientalis
Sapindaceae
Taxa Sonnerat
Taxa 1782
Species plantarum