Quassia amara

Quassia amara
	Quassia amara from Koehler's Medicinal-Plants (1887)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Simaroubaceae
Genus:	Quassia
Species:	Q. amara
Binomial name
	Quassia amara; L.
Synonyms
	List Quassia amara var. grandiflora Hemsl. in Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 1: 172 (1879); Quassia amara f. paniculata (Engl.) Cronquist in Brittonia 5: 146 (1944); Quassia amara var. paniculata Engl. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 12(2): 207 (1874); Quassia pumila A.Rich. in J.B.G. Bory de Saint-Vincent, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 17: 11 (1831), nom. superfl.; ;

Quassia amara, also known as amargo, bitter-ash, bitter-wood, or hombre grande (spanish for big man) is a species in the genus Quassia, with some botanists treating it as the sole species in the genus. The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus who named it after the first botanist to describe it: the Surinamese freedman Graman Quassi. Q. amara is used as insecticide, in traditional medicine and as additive in the food industry.

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