genus cinchona

1. Large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark (synset 112684315)
   is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
   member holonym:

   • chinchona, cinchona - any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
   • cartagena bark, cinchona cordifolia, cinchona lancifolia - Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark)
   • calisaya, cinchona calisaya, cinchona ledgeriana, cinchona officinalis - Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
   • cinchona pubescens, cinchona tree - small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
   belongs to: family rubiaceae, madder family, rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
   same as: genus chinchona

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