[1714] Simarouba amara Aubl. Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 860 [Jun.-Dec. 1775] (Aublet 1775). Quassia dioica P.J.Bergius, Mater. Med.: 355 (Bergius 1778). Quassia simaruba L.f., Suppl. Pl.: 234 [“1781” publ. Apr. 1782] (Linnaeus 1782). Quassia officinalis Rich., Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 108 [Oct. 1792] (Richard 1792). Simarouba glauca DC., Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 17: 424 (Candolle 1811), “ Simaruba ”. — Quassia glauca (DC.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. [Sprengel] 2: 319 [Jan.-May 1825] (Sprengel 1825). Quassia alatifolia Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 491 (Stokes 1812). Simarouba amara var. opaca Engl., Nat. Pflanzenfam. [Engler & Prantl] 3 (4): 213 (Engler 1896). — Simarouba opaca (Engl.) Radlk. ex F.Boas, Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 29 (1): 332 (Boas 1913). Simarouba amara var. typica Cronquist, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 71 (3): 229 [May 1944] (Cronquist 1944), nom. inval. (Turland et al. 2018: Art. 24.3). Simarouba glauca var. latifolia Cronquist, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 71 (3): 231 [May 1944] (Cronquist 1944). Simarouba glauca var. typica Cronquist, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 71 (3): 231 [May 1944] (Cronquist 1944), nom. inval. (Turland et al. 2018): Art. 24.3). Simarouba amara var. puberula Cuatrec., Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 8 (32): 466 [June 1952] (Cuatrecasas 1952). NOTE. — Hyperdominant in Amazonia (ter Steege et al. 2020). VERNACULAR NAMES. — Pa: timaa-avain • Ka: šimaluba, simalupa, sumaliba • Wp: ɨwẽ ’ɨ • Wn: pëunpë • Nt: sumaypa • Cr: akajoublan, simarouba • Fr: simarouba • Br: marupa, paraiba. HERBARIUM DATA (FG). — 61 collections at CAY. Sel. exs.: J.B. Aublet s.n. (original material not traced); R.A.A. Oldeman B-1925 (P). INVENTORY DATA (FG). — 77 trees in 62 plots; Fmax <1 %; dbhinv = 90 cm.

Published as part of Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Grenand, Pierre, Engel, Julien, Frame, Dawn, Delprete, Piero G., Fleury, Marie, Odonne, Guillaume, Davy, Damien, Lucas, Eve J. & Martin, Claire A., 2022, An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature, pp. 345-903 in Adansonia (3) (3) 44 (26) on page 706, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a26, http://zenodo.org/record/7458777