Plant Details

Accepted name:: Simarouba amara Aubl. [Simaroubaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
accituno	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
arubá	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bitter damson	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
bitterwood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bois blanc	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
caixeta	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
calunga	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
dysentery bark bitterwood	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
huamansana	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
leskuéla	Other	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
maruba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
marubá	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
marupa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
marupá	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
marupá-verdadeiro	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
palo amargo	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
paradise tree	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pazak	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
pa´sak´	Other	Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
simarouba	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
simarruba	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
simaruba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
slave wood	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
tarari	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves, bark		Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
rind	fluid extract, vegetal drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
bark		Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Quassia dioica P.J.Bergius Mater. Med.: 355 (1778).
Quassia simaruba L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 234 (1782).
Pistacia americana Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 7 (1768).
Quassia alatifolia Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 491 (1812).
Quassia officinalis Rich. Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 108 (1792).
Quassia simarouba W.Wright Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 2: 80 (1790), orth. var.
Simarouba amara var. opaca Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 213 (1896).
Simarouba amara var. puberula Cuatrec. Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 8: 466 (1952).
Simarouba amara var. typica Cronquist Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 71: 229 (1944), not validly publ.
Simarouba opaca (Engl.) Radlk. ex F.Boas Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 29(1): 332 (1913).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Quassia dioica P.J. Bergius	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Quassia simarouba L.f.	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
Simarouba amara Aubl.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Simarouba amara Aublet	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Simaruba amara Aublet	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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