title: Quetzalia
text: # Quetzalia
  
  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.
  
  ## 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
  