Rzedowskia Explained

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.

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rzedowskia Medrano Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 15 May 2021 . en.
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.
3. Web site: Isotype of Rzedowskia tolantonguensis Medrano [family CELASTRACEAE] on JSTOR ]. plants.jstor.org . 4 December 2021 .
4. Web site: Gonzalez . A. G. . Bazzocchi . I. L. . Ravelo . A. G. . Jimenez . I. A. . Sesquiterpenes from Rzedowskia tolantonguensis (pages=309-311 . Phytochemistry . 4 December 2021 . English . 1997.