Cinchonopsis

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Cinchoneae
Genus: Cinchonopsis
Species: C. amazonica
Name

Cinchonopsis L.Andersson, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 82: 424. (1995)
References

Andersson, B.L. 1995. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82(3): 424.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Cinchonopsis in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 1. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Cinchonopsis. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 1 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Cinchonopsis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 1.

Cinchonopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae containing the single species Cinchonopsis amazonica.[2] It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Amazon basin to the eastern slopes of the Andes.[3]

This is a tree with oppositely arranged leaves and terminal inflorescences. The white flowers have funnel-shaped corollas with five triangular lobes. The fruit is a papery cylindrical capsule. This species was separated from genus Cinchona mainly on the basis of the morphology of the flowers.[4]
References

Standley, Paul Carpenter. 1931. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 8(5): 334, Cinchona amazonica
Andersson, Bengt Lennart. 1995. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82(3): 424 Cinchonopsis amazonica
Cinchonopsis amazonica. Selected Rubiaceae Tribes and Genera. Tropicos.
Cinchonopsis. Selected Rubiaceae Tribes and Genera. Tropicos.