| 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 |
| Species: | R. tolantonguensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Rzedowskia tolantonguensis Medrano | |
Rzedowskia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae. It contains one known species, Rzedowskia tolantonguensis, native to eastern Mexico.
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. The Latin specific epithet of tolantonguensis refers to Tolantongo, a box canyon and resort in the state of Hidalgo, where the plant was found. 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.
In 1997, sesquiterpenes were extracted from Rzedowskia tolantonguensis.
References
- ^ "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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Rzedowskia | |
| Rzedowskia tolantonguensis | |