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| image_caption = ''Quassia amara''
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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'''''Quassia''''' is a [[genus]] in the [[family]] [[Simaroubaceae]]. Its size is disputed; some [[botanist]]s treat it as consisting of only one [[species]], ''[[Quassia amara]]'' from [tropical] [[South America]], while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a [[pantropical]] [[genus]] containing up to 40 species of [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s.
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Quassia (from an aboriginal name). Simarubaceae. Trees, sometimes cultivated in the warmhouse.
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Leaves alternate, pinnate; lfts. alternate, entire, coriaceous: panicles axillary and terminal, elongated,branched; fls. subcymose-dioecious; calyx small, 5- lobed; petals 5; stamens 10 in the male, rudimentary in the female fls.; ovary sunken in the disk, deeply 5- parted: fr. 1-5 spreading sessile drupes.—About 5 species, Trop. Amer. and Trop. Afr.
 
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'''''Quassia''''' is a [[genus]] in the [[family]] [[Simaroubaceae]]. Its size is disputed; some [[botanist]]s treat it as consisting of only one [[species]], ''[[Quassia amara]]'' from [tropical] [[South America]], while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a [[pantropical]] [[genus]] containing up to 40 species of [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s.
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==Species==
 
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*''[[Quassia africana]]''
 
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*''[[Quassia undulata]]''
 
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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Latest revision as of 23:24, 11 December 2009


Quassia amara


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Features: ✓ flowers
Scientific Names

Simaroubaceae >

Quassia >


Quassia is a genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, Quassia amara from [tropical] South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical genus containing up to 40 species of trees and shrubs.


Read about Quassia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Quassia (from an aboriginal name). Simarubaceae. Trees, sometimes cultivated in the warmhouse.

Leaves alternate, pinnate; lfts. alternate, entire, coriaceous: panicles axillary and terminal, elongated,branched; fls. subcymose-dioecious; calyx small, 5- lobed; petals 5; stamens 10 in the male, rudimentary in the female fls.; ovary sunken in the disk, deeply 5- parted: fr. 1-5 spreading sessile drupes.—About 5 species, Trop. Amer. and Trop. Afr.


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Cultivation

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Species

Broader treatments of the genus include the following and other species:

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References

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