''Horovitzia cnidoscoloides'' is a plant species in the family
Caricaceae
The Caricaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, found primarily in tropical regions of Central and South America and Africa. They are usually short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small to medium-sized trees growin ...
, endemic to the
cloud forest
A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, Montane forest, montane, Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, moist forest characteri ...
of
Sierra de Juarez in
Oaxaca
Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...
, Mexico at elevations of 800 to 1600 meters.
It is the only species in the genus ''Horovitzia''. The type specimen was collected in
Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca on 9 March 1986
Description
Small evergreen dioecious tree 0.5–4 meters tall, with subcapitate stigma, and stinging hairs covering the entire plant. Male flowers have a 3–10 cm long peduncle. Fruits are 6–15 cm long, green when mature, pendulous, ellipsoid with strong ridges. The plant has a chromosome count of 2n = 16.
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Caricaceae
Monotypic Brassicales genera
Endemic flora of Mexico
Flora of Southwestern Mexico
Flora of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca
Plants described in 1988
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