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Quetzalia
Sign in to saveQuetzalia 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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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Quetzalia, and connects out to plant, International Standard Book Number and Wikidata.
Vinony files it under Celastraceae, Celastraceae genera and Flora of the Neotropical realm.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCelastrales
- FamilyCelastraceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Celastraceae
- Collections
- MO, TEX, UNESP-RC, BRIT
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Panamá
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Encyclopedic overview
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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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