Rzedowskia | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Celastrales |
Family: | Celastraceae |
Genus: |
Rzedowskia Medrano [1] |
Species: | R. tolantonguensis
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Binomial name | |
Rzedowskia tolantonguensis Medrano
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Rzedowskia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. [1] It contains one known species, Rzedowskia tolantonguensis, native to eastern Mexico. [1]
The genus name of Rzedowskia is in honour of Jerzy Rzedowski (1926–2023), a Mexican botanist. His focus was on Mexican floristics, taxonomy, and ecology. [2] The Latin specific epithet of tolantonguensis refers to Tolantongo, a box canyon and resort in the state of Hidalgo, where the plant was found. [3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in the Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México Vol. 41, page 41 in 1981. [1]
In 1997, sesquiterpenes were extracted from Rzedowskia tolantonguensis. [4]