Simarouba amara

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sapindales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Sapindales

Simarouba amara Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 860 (1775)

Pistacia americana Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8. n. 7 (1768)
Quassia dioica O.Berg, Mat. Med. 355. (1778)
Quassia simaruba L.f., Suppl. Pl. 234 (1782)
Quassia simarouba W.Wright, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 2: 80, nom. illegit. (1790)
Quassia officinalis Rich., Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 108 (1792)
Zwingera amara Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willdenow] 2(1): 569 (1799)
Quassia alatifolia Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. ii. 491 (1812)
Simarouba amara var. opaca Engl., Nat. Pflanzenfam. [Engler & Prantl] 3, Abt. 4: 213 (1896)
Simarouba opaca Radlk. ex F.Boas, Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 1. 29(1): 332 (1913)
Simarouba amara var. typica Cronquist, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 71: 229 (1944)
Simarouba amara var. puberula Cuatrec., Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 8: 466 (1952)

Native distribution areas:

Northern America
- Mexico
  - Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest
Southern America
- Central America
  - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá
- Caribbean
  - Leeward Is., Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.
- Northern South America
  - French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
- Western South America
  - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Brazil
  - Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central

Fusée Aublet, J.B.C. 1775. Histoire des plantes de la Guiane françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objets intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane françoise, & une notice des plantes de l' Isle-de-France. Tome 2. Pp. 622–976, tabl. 1–52, misc. 1–160. Pierre-François Didot jeune, Londres [London], Paris. BHL. Reference page.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Simarouba amara in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.