Cinchona pubescens

TaxID: 50278

Basic Information

Cinchona pubescens

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Cinchona pubescens, also known as red cinchona and quina or kina (Spanish: Cascarilla, cinchona; 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 C. officinalis in the production of quinine, most famously used for treatment of malaria.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Gentianales

Rubiaceae

Cinchona

Cinchona pubescens

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Morphological Features

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Host Plants (0 host plants)

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Quarantine Status (1 records)

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Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Present —

Distribution (0 countries)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_025175665.1 Contig 889 2788 2788 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR35913672 immature leaf, apical leaf - - 33256947 Germany:Jena
SRR35913671 immature leaf, apical leaf - - 33231936 Germany:Jena
SRR35913670 immature leaf, apical leaf - - 33289402 Germany:Jena

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Literature