''Qualea'' is a

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

in the

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Vochysiaceae. These plants occur in the

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and their wood makes good

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and

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and is used in construction. Some species of ''Qualea'' have medicinal properties.

Species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

include: * '' Qualea calantha'' * '' Qualea cordata'' Spreng. * '' Qualea dichotoma'' ( Mart.) Warm. * '' Qualea elegans'' Taub. * '' Qualea glauca'' Warm. * '' Qualea grandiflora'' Mart. * '' Qualea grandifolia'' Mart. * '' Qualea impexa'' * '' Qualea ingens'' Warm. – ''"arrayán"'' ( Colombia) * '' Qualea multiflora'' Mart. * '' Qualea parviflora'' Mart. * '' Qualea polychroma'' * '' Qualea tessmannii''

References

Flora of South America Myrtales genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Myrtales-stub