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| color = lightgreen
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|familia=Simaroubaceae
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| name = ''Quassia''
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|genus=Quassia
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| image = Koeh-117.jpg
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|Min ht metric=cm
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| image_width = 240px
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|features=flowers
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| image_caption = ''Quassia amara''
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|Temp Metric=°F
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
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|image=Koeh-117.jpg
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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|image_width=200
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| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
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|image_caption=Quassia amara
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| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
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| familia = [[Simaroubaceae]]
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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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| genus = '''''Quassia'''''
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| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
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| subdivision_ranks = Species
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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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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
 
Broader treatments of the genus include the following and other species:
 
Broader treatments of the genus include the following and other species:
 
*''[[Quassia africana]]''
 
*''[[Quassia africana]]''
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*''[[Quassia undulata]]''
 
*''[[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  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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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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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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==External links==
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