Quetzalia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Celastrales

Familia: Celastraceae
Genus: Quetzalia
Species: Q. contracta – Q. guatemalensis – Q. ilicina – Q. occidentalis – Q. pauciflora – Q. schiedeana – Q. stipitata
Name

Quetzalia Lundell, Wrightia 4: 137. (1970)

Type species: Quetzalia occidentalis (Loes.) Lundell, Wrightia 4: 138. (1970)
References

Lundell, C.L. 1970. Wrightia; a Botanical Journal 4: 137.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Quetzalia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 31. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. Quetzalia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 31. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Quetzalia. Published online. Accessed: May 31 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Quetzalia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 31 May 2021.
Tropicos.org: Vascular Plants of the Americas: Quetzalia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 31.

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]
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

References

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.