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.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Subfamily: | Celastroideae |
| Genus: | Quetzalia Lundell[1] |
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Species
editCurrently 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
References
edit- ^ Wrightia 4: 137 (1970)
- ^ Kubitzki, Klaus (11 November 2013). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Vol. VI. Springer. p. 52. ISBN 9783662072578.