Nahuatlea aborescens is a species of tree in the Composite family endemic to the Cape region and Cerralvo Island of Baja California Sur, commonly known as ocote.

It grows up to 8 meters tall, with monoecious tan-colored flowers and short, leafy branchlets.

The leaves are chartaceous (meaning resembling paper or parchment), and shaped ovate to elliptic, glabrescent (nearly smooth) on both faces.

[2] In later years, it was discovered that the genus Gochnatia was not monophyletic, but in fact composed of a number of distinct clades.

It is distributed from the Sierra de La Giganta to the Cape region of the peninsula and on Cerralvo Island in the Gulf of California.