Cinchona

Accepted species 25 Documented here 4 Family Rubiaceae

Accepted species 25 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cinchona lancifolia Mutis 11 documented
Cinchona calisaya Wedd. 5 documented
Cinchona parabolica Pav. 3 documented
Cinchona pubescens Vahl 3 documented
Cinchona anderssonii Maldonado 1 below the evidence gate
Cinchona officinalis L. 1 below the evidence gate
Cinchona × boliviana Wedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona antioquiae L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona asperifolia Wedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona barbacoensis H.Karst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona capuli L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona fruticosa L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona glandulifera Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona hirsuta Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona krauseana L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona lucumifolia Pav. ex Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona macrocalyx Pav. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona micrantha Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona mutisii Lamb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona nitida Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona pitayensis (Wedd.) Wedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona pyrifolia L.Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona rugosa Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona scrobiculata Bonpl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cinchona villosa Pav. ex Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.