Hortia

• Authority

  Cowan, Richard S. 1967. Rutaceae of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14: 1-14.

• Family

  Rutaceae

• Scientific Name

  Hortia

• Description

  
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  Species Description - Trees or shrubs will alternate, simple coriaceous to rigid, glabrous leaves. Branches of the broadly paniculate inflorescence drying red-brown, incrassate, the epidermis splitting repeatedly transversely. Flowers pentamerous, the calyx cupular, very shortly lobed; petals free, valvate, the apices inflexed. Ovary 5-locular (or sometimes some locules abortive), each locule with 2 superposed ovules. Fruits drupaceous, 2-seeded.

• Discussion

  Type species. H . hrasiliensis Vandelli ex A. P. D C.