Cinchona calisayaWedd.

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WFO wfo-0000860414 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cinchona calisaya, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-03-06 / obs. 108133451

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05057142
Filed as
Cinchona calisaya Wedd.
Det. by
B. Boom 1983-01-01
Collected
M. J. Balick 1982-08-09
Origin
BO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Cinchona calisaya is native: Bolivia, Peru BoliviaPeru
Native distribution of Cinchona calisaya, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Peru PER

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 34 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cinchona amygdalifolia Wedd.
  • Cinchona australis Wedd.
  • Cinchona calisaya var. boliviana Wedd.
  • Cinchona calisaya var. josephiana Wedd.
  • Cinchona calisaya var. ledgeriana Howard
  • Cinchona calisaya var. microcarpa Wedd.
  • Cinchona calisaya var. oblongifolia Wedd.
  • Cinchona calisaya var. vera Wedd.
  • Cinchona carabayensis Wedd.
  • Cinchona carabayensis var. lanceolata Miq.
  • Cinchona delondriana Wedd.
  • Cinchona euneura Miq.
  • Cinchona forbesiana Howard
  • Cinchona forbesiana Howard ex Wedd.
  • Cinchona gammiana King
  • Cinchona gironensis Mutis
  • Cinchona hasskarliana Miq.
  • Cinchona josephiana (Wedd.) Wedd.
  • Cinchona ledgeriana (Howard) Bern.Moens ex Trimen
  • Cinchona officinalis var. josephiana (Wedd.) Cárdenas
  • Cinchona pahudiana Howard
  • Cinchona peruviana Howard
  • Cinchona peruviana var. vera Howard
  • Cinchona scrobiculata var. delondriana (Wedd.) Wedd.

and 10 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.