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Notes:
This species has not been well documented, but several recent collections expand our knowledge of it. Cinchona fruticosa can be recognized by its rather low habit, usually in dwarf forest, its rather small leaves with the secondary veins and many of the tertiary veins thinly impressed on the upper surface, its medium-sized inflorescences, and its rather small pink flowers with the corolla tube ca. 8 mm long and the lobes ca. 3.5 mm long. The plants from the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador that are included here provisionally are a little different, with more secondary leaf veins and capsules borne on longer pedicels, and may be better considered a separate species but no flowering specimens from that region have been seen so this is difficult to evaluate now.
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