Quetzalia are a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine and bittersweet family Celastraceae, native to Mexico and Central America. They can be trees, shrubs or lianas. Cyrus Longworth Lundell split them off from Microtropis in 1970, overriding his own 1939 findings.
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Quetzalia are a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine and bittersweet family Celastraceae, native to Mexico and Central America. They can be trees, shrubs or lianas. Cyrus Longworth Lundell split them off from Microtropis in 1970, overriding his own 1939 findings.
==Species== Eight species are accepted: 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 stipitata (Lundell) Lundell
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