Editing Toona (section)

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image =Starr_030405-0246_Toona_ciliata.jpg
|image_caption = ''[[Toona ciliata]]'' (Type species)
|taxon = Toona
|authority = ([[Stephan Endlicher|Endl.]]) [[Max Joseph Roemer|M.Roem.]]<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?12192 |title=Genus: ''Toona'' (Endl.) M. Roem. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |date=1996-09-17 |access-date=2011-04-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011141843/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?12192 |archive-date=2012-10-11 }}</ref>
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
|synonyms = 
*''Fabrenia'' {{small|[[Francisco Noronha|Noronha]]}}
*''Surenus'' {{small|[[Georg Eberhard Rumphius|Rumph.]] ex [[Otto Kuntze|Kuntze]]}}
|synonyms_ref = {{R|POWO}}
}}

'''''Toona''''', commonly known as '''red cedar''',<ref>{{PLANTS|id=TOONA|taxon=Toona|accessdate=11 December 2015}}</ref> '''toon''' (also spelled '''tun''') or '''toona''', '''tooni''' (in Nepal and India) is a [[genus]] in the mahogany family, [[Meliaceae]], native from [[Afghanistan]] south to [[India]], and east to [[North Korea]], [[Papua New Guinea]] and eastern [[Australia]].<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Mabberley |title=Mabberley's Plant-Book |edition=3 |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-521-82071-4 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=863}}</ref> In older texts, the genus was often incorporated within a wider circumscription of the related genus ''[[Cedrela]]'', but that genus is now restricted to species from the Americas.