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The genus Cinchona is in the family Rubiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cinchona

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cinchona antioquiae L.Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona asperifolia Wedd.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona barbacoensis H.Karst.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona × boliviana Wedd.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona calisaya Wedd.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona calisaya wedd x pubescens vahl pro sp.	Accepted		TRO
Cinchona capuli L.Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona fruticosa L.Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona glandulifera Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona hirsuta Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona krauseana L.Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona lancifolia Mutis	Accepted		TRO
Cinchona legitima Ruiz ex Lamb.	Accepted		TRO
Cinchona lucumifolia Pav. ex Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona macrocalyx Pav. ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona micrantha Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona mutisii Lamb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona nitida Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona officinalis L.	Accepted		TRO
Cinchona parabolica Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona pitayensis (Wedd.) Wedd.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona pubescens Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona pyrifolia L.Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona rugosa Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona scrobiculata Humb. & Bonpl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cinchona villosa Pav. ex Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 252 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cinchona. Of these 26 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 60 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cinchona. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 252 species names for the genus Cinchona recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	10.3%
◕	Synonym	212	84.1%
◕	Unplaced	4	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	10	4.0%

All names

The status of the 312 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cinchona recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	8.3%
◕	Synonym	272	87.2%
◕	Unplaced	4	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	10	3.2%

Of these names,

• 11 are recorded as invalid
• 10 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 252 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cinchona, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	180	0	0	202	80.2%
	Medium confidence	4	30	0	0	34	13.5%
	Low confidence	0	2	4	10	16	6.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Cinchona, are as follows: