Qualea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Qualea dichotoma.jpg

| image_caption = Qualea dichotoma

| taxon = Qualea

| authority = Aubl.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = Several, see text

}}

File:Qualea rosea MHNT.BOT.2010.6.35.jpg]]

Qualea is a flowering plant genus in the family Vochysiaceae. These plants occur in the Neotropics and their wood makes good timber and firewood and is used in construction.{{cite book |last1=Longwood |first1=Franklin R. |title=Present and Potential Commercial Timbers of the Caribbean: With Special Reference to the West Indies, the Guianas, and British Honduras |date=1962 |publisher=U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service |pages=60–61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3YwAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Gérard |first1=Jean |last2=Guibal |first2=Daniel |last3=Paradis |first3=Sébastien |last4=Cerre |first4=Jean-Claude |title=Tropical timber atlas: Technological characteristics and uses |date=2017 |publisher=Editions Quae |isbn=9782759227983 |page=555 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0t5FDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA555 |language=en}} Some species of Qualea have medicinal properties.{{cite book |last1=Quattrocchi |first1=Umberto |title=CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (5 Volume Set) |date=2016 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9781482250640 |page=3155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-37OBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3155 |language=en}}

Species 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