Quetzalia Explained

Quetzalia are a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine and bittersweet family Celastraceae, disjunctly distributed in Mexico, Central America, and Brazil. They can be trees, shrubs or lianas. Cyrus Longworth Lundell split them off from Microtropis in 1970, overriding his own 1939 findings.^[1]

Species

Currently accepted species include:

• Quetzalia areolata (Lundell) Lundell
• Quetzalia contracta (Lundell) Lundell
• Quetzalia ilicina (Standl. & Steyerm.) Lundell
• Quetzalia mayana (Lundell & L.O.Williams) Lundell
• Quetzalia occidentalis (Loes. ex Donn.Sm.) Lundell
• Quetzalia pauciflora Lundell
• Quetzalia reynae Lundell
• Quetzalia schiedeana (Loes.) Lundell
• Quetzalia standleyi (Lundell) Lundell
• Quetzalia stipitata (Lundell) Lundell

Notes and References

1. Book: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . VI . 11 November 2013 . Kubitzki . Klaus . Springer . 9783662072578 . 52 .