Plant Details

Accepted name:: Exostema caribaeum (Jacq.) Schult. [Rubiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
quina	Other	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
quina amarilla	Other	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
quina blanca	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
bark		Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cinchona caribaea Jacq. Enum. Syst. Pl.: 16 (1760).
Cinchona caribbeana W.Wright Philos. Trans. 67(2): 506 (1778).
Cinchona herbacea L. Mant. Pl. 2: 338 (1771).
Cinchona jamaicensis Wright Philos. Trans. 67: 506 (1778).
Cinchona myrtifolia Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 359 (1812), nom. illeg.
Cinchona racemosa Schrank ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 363 (1840).
Exostema caribaeum var. pubescens Borhidi & O.Muñiz Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 18: 44 (1973).
Exostema caribaeum var. velutinum Urb. Symb. Antill. 8: 665 (1921).
Exostema longicuspe Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1852: 48 (1853).
Exostema veraensis Kitanov Fitologiya 11: 51 (1979).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cinchona caribaea Jacq.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Exostema caribaeum (Jacq.) Roem. et Schult.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Exostema caribaeum (Jacq.) Schult.	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Exostema caribaeum (Jacq.) Schultes	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Exostema caribaeum (Jacq.)Roemer & Schultes	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Exostema caribeum (Jacq.) Roem.	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
Exostemma caribaeum	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Exostemma caribaeum Roemer et Schultes	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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