TheSimaroubaceae, also known as thequassia family, are a small, mostly tropical, family in the orderSapindales. In recent decades, it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off. Amolecular phylogeny of the family was published in 2007, greatly clarifying relationships within the family.[2] Together with chemical characteristics such as the occurrence ofpetroselinic acid inPicrasma,[3] in contrast to other members of the family such asAilanthus,[4] this indicates the existence of a subgroup in the family withPicrasma,Holacantha, andCastela.
^Clayton, Joshua W.; Edwino S. Fernando;Pamela S. Soltis;Douglas E. Soltis (2007). "Molecular phylogeny of the tree-of-heaven family (Simaroubaceae) based on chloroplast and nuclear markers".International Journal of Plant Sciences.168 (9):1325–1339.doi:10.1086/521796.S2CID86016778.
^Tsujimoto, M.; Koyanagi, H. (May 1933). "On Nikagi Oil".Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn.8 (5):161–167.
^T. Stuhlfauth; H. Fock; H. Huber; K. Klug (1985). "The distribution of fatty acids including petroselinic and tariric acids in the fruit and seed oils of the Pittosporaceae, Araliaceae, Umbelliferae, Simarubaceae and Rutaceae".Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.13:447–453.doi:10.1016/0305-1978(85)90091-2.
^Knapp, Liza B; Canham, Charles D (2000). "Invasion of an Old-Growth Forest in New York by Ailanthus altissima: Sapling Growth and Recruitment in Canopy Gaps".Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.127 (4): 307.doi:10.2307/3088649.JSTOR3088649.
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