Details for: PI 107001, Quassia amara L., 'Bitter wood'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Quassia amara L.

Cultivar:

'Bitter wood'

Origin:

Collected – Guyana

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

07 Nov 1934

PI Assigned:

1934

Inventory Volume:

121
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Quassia amara L.

Cultivar:

'Bitter wood'

Origin:

Collected – Guyana

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

07 Nov 1934

PI Assigned:

1934

Source History

Collected

27 September 1934.
Guyana

Collector(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Bitter wood'

Type: Cultivar name

No. 2596

Type: Collector identifier

Indian cinchona

Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative

Quassia amara L.

Genus:

Quassia

Family:

Simaroubaceae

Nomen number:

30632

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:553. 1762

Comment:

non Simarouba amara Aubl.

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

11/07/1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	bitterwood	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	quassia	1	McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
English	quassia-wood	1	Liogier, H. A. 1984-. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
English	Surinam quassia	1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	quassia de Surinam	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	quinine de Cayenne	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	quinine du pays	2	Howard, R. 1988. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 4:572-574. Note: cultivated
German	Bitterholzbaum	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Bitterquassia	2	Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
German	Quassiaholzbaum	2	Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
German	Quassie	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	amargo	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	pau-amarelo	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	pau-quássia	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	quássia-de-caiena	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	quina	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	quinarana	2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanish	crucete	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	cuasia amarga	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	kvassia	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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