Simaba

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Simaba guianensis 286723399.jpg | image_caption = ''Simaba guianensis'' | taxon = Simaba | authority = Aubl. | synonyms = * ''Aruba'' {{au|Aubl. in Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 293 (1775)}} * ''Phyllostema'' {{au|Neck. in Elem. Bot. 2: 301 (1790), opus utique oppr.}} * ''Zwingera'' {{au|Schreb. in Gen. Pl., ed. 8[a].: 802 (1791), nom. illeg.}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=38248-1 |title=''Simaba'' |access-date=12 November 2023}}</ref> }}

'''''Simaba''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Simaroubaceae.<ref name="POWO"/>

Its native range stretches from southern tropical America and Trinidad, across to western tropical Africa to Angola then across to western Malesia.<ref name="POWO" />

It was first published by French botanist Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1720–1778), in Hist. Pl. Guiane on page 409 in 1775.<ref name="POWO" />

Hans Peter Nooteboom (1934–2022) in 1962 (published in 1963), took a very broad view of the genus ''Quassia'' {{au|L.}} and included therein various genera including, ''Hannoa'' {{au|Planch.}}, ''Odyendyea'' {{au|(Pierre) Engl.}}, ''Pierreodendron'' {{au|Engl.}}, ''Samadera'' {{au|Gaertn.}}, ''Simaba'' {{au|Aubl.}} and ''Simarouba'' {{au|Aubl.}}<ref name="noteboom">{{cite journal |last1=Noteboom |first1=Hans Peter |title=Generic delimitation in Simaroubaceae tribus Simaroubeae and a conspectus of the genus ''Quassia'' L. |journal=Blumea |date=1962 |volume=XI |issue=2 |pages=509–28 |url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/524782/BLUM1962011002007.pdf |access-date=4 February 2021}}</ref> In 2007, molecular analyses of the Simaroubaceae family (Clayton et al., 2007), suggested the splitting up of genera ''Quassia'' again, with all Nooteboom's synonyms listed above being resurrected as independent genera.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clayton |first1=J.W. |last2=Fernando |first2=E.S. |last3=Soltis |first3=P.S. |last4=Soltis |first4=D.E. |title=Molecular phylogeny of the Tree-of-Heaven family (Simaroubaceae) based on chloroplast and nuclear markers |journal=Int. J. Plant Sci. |date=2007 |volume=168 |issue=9 |pages=1325–1339|doi=10.1086/521796 }}</ref>

==Species== As accepted by Plants of the World Online;<ref name="POWO" /> {{div col}} *''Simaba africana'' {{small|Baill.}} *''Simaba borneensis'' {{small|(Noot.) Feuillet}} *''Simaba guianensis'' {{small|Aubl.}} *''Simaba monophylla'' {{small|(Oliv.) Cronquist}} *''Simaba obovata'' {{small|Spruce ex Engl.}} *''Simaba orinocensis'' {{small|Kunth}} *''Simaba polyphylla'' {{small|(Cavalcante) W.W.Thomas}} *''Simaba pubicarpa'' {{small|Devecchi, W.W.Thomas & Francesch.}} {{div col end}}

==Distribution== The genus is native to the countries (and regions) of; southern America (within Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela), the Caribbean, (within Trinidad and Tobago), tropical Africa (within Angola, Cabinda (in Angola), Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Zaïre (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and western Malesia (within Borneo and Sumatra).<ref name="POWO" /> ==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Simaroubaceae Category:Sapindales genera Category:Plants described in 1775 Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet