Quassia

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

? Quassia
Quassia amara
Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Sapindales Family: Simaroubaceae Genus: Quassia L.
Species
See text.

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.

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

• Quassia africana
• Quassia amara
• Quassia bidwillii
• Quassia indica
• Quassia undulata