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]
| 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[1]
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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]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Rzedowskia Medrano | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Isotype of Rzedowskia tolantonguensis Medrano [family CELASTRACEAE] on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ Gonzalez, A. G.; Bazzocchi, I. L.; Ravelo, A. G.; Jimenez, I. A. (1997). "Sesquiterpenes from Rzedowskia tolantonguensis (pages=309-311". Phytochemistry. Retrieved 4 December 2021.