Cinchona pubescens Vahl

Species in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection

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Digitised Reference Slides
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Distribution
Cinchona pubescens (rights holder: Biodiversity Heritage Library)© Biodiversity Heritage Library (licence)

Quinine

Cinchona pubescens seedling Cinchona pubescens, also known as red cinchona and quina (Quechua) ((in Spanish) Cascarilla, cinchona; (in Portuguese) quina-do-amazonas, quineira), is native to Central and South America. It is known as a medicinal plant for its bark's high quinine content- and has similar uses to Cinchona officinalis in the production of quinine, most famously used for treatmen... © Wikipedia authors and editors (licence)

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Definition
Parent Taxon
Cinchona
Global Pollen Project UUID
fa477e53-0260-42bb-93bf-ab3c505184bb
Botanical Reference
None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources

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