Rzedowskia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Celastrales

Familia: Celastraceae
Genus: Rzedowskia
Species: R. tolantonguensis
Name

Rzedowskia Medrano, Bol. Soc. Bot. México no. 41: 41. (1981)

Type species: Rzedowskia tolantonguensis Medrano, Bol. Soc. Bot. México no. 41: 41 (-42), fig (1981)
monotypic taxon

References

Medrano, F.G. 1981. Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México 41: 41.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Rzedowskia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Rzedowskia. Published online. Accessed: May 29 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Rzedowskia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 29 May 2021.

Rzedowskia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Rzedowskia tolantonguensis Medrano [1]

It is native to eastern Mexico.[1]

The genus name of Rzedowskia is in honour of Jerzy Rzedowski (b. 1926), a Mexican botanist. His focus is on Mexican floristics, taxonomy, and ecology.[2] The Latin specific epithet of tolantonguensis refers to Tolantongo is a box canyon and resort in Hidalgo (state), where the plant was found.[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bol. Soc. Bot. México Vol.41 on page 41 in 1981.[1]

In 1997, Sesquiterpenes were extracted from Rzedowskia tolantonguensis.[4]
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. 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. Phytochemistry. Retrieved 4 December 2021.