Rutaceae
Hortia

Hortia brasiliana Vand. ex DC.

First published in Prodr. 1: 732 (1824)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Panama to W. South america, E. Brazil. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders and as a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Groppo, M. & Rubens Pirani, J. (2012). A revision of Hortia (Rutaceae). Systematic Botany 37: 197-212.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Milliken, W. (2015). Plants for malaria, plants for fever. In: State of the World's Plants 2016. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Groppo, M. & Rubens Pirani, J. (2012). A revision of Hortia (Rutaceae). Systematic Botany 37: 197-212.

Kew Plants for Health

  • "World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)"

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • Plants for malaria, plants for fever: Medicinal species in Latin America, a bibliographic survey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2004 Groppo, M., Jr.; Ulwin, M. [655] Brazil K000836772 Yes
Jan 1, 2004 Groppo, M., Jr.; Marcato, A.C.; Soffiatti, P. [759] Brazil K000836773 Yes
Oct 1, 2003 Groppo, M., Jr.; Folli, D.A.; Marcato, A.C.; Fiaschi, P.; Pirani, J.R. [990] Brazil K000836775 Yes
Jan 1, 2000 Fiaschi, P.; Costa, C.B. [384] Brazil K000836771 Yes
Oct 1, 1982 Heringer, E.P.; Filgueiras, T.S.; Mendonça, R.C.; Pereira, B.A.S. [6985] Brazil K000836782 Yes
Jan 1, 1976 Irwin, H.S.; Souza, R.; Santos, R.R. [9729] Brazil K000836780 Yes
Jan 1, 1968 Irwin, H.S.; Soderstrom, T.R. [5998] Brazil K000836774 Yes
Burchell [5691] Brazil K000836770 Yes
Robert [441b] Brazil K000836776 Yes
Burchell [5827] Brazil K000836769 Yes
Burchell [5762] Brazil K000836909 Yes
Riedel [2464] Brazil K000836779 Yes
s.coll. [892] Brazil K000836778 Yes
s.coll. [893] Brazil K000836777 Yes
Glaziou, A. [20799] Brazil K000836781 Yes
Jan 1, 2004 Riedel [s.n.] Brazil Hortia arborea K000531218 Type Yes
Harley, R.M. [15567] Brazil Hortia arborea K:SPC-39639.000 No
Jan 1, 2004 Lawrance, A.E. [392] Colombia Hortia colombiana K000531297 Isotype Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0