Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
Distribution notes: Exotic
Rauvolfia tetraphylla L.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Rauvolfia canescens L. |
synonym | Rauvolfia canescens var. glabra Müll.Arg. |
synonym | Rauvolfia canescens var. intermedia Markgr. |
synonym | Rauvolfia canescens var. tomentosa Müll.Arg. |
synonym | Rauvolfia canescens var. typica Markgr. |
synonym | Rauvolfia heterophylla var. puberula A.Gray |
synonym | Rauvolfia heterophylla Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. |
synonym | Rauvolfia hirsuta Jacq. |
synonym | Rauvolfia hirsuta var. glabra (Müll.Arg.) Woodson |
synonym | Rauvolfia latifolia var. minor Müll.Arg. |
synonym | Rauvolfia nitida Sessé & Moc. |
synonym | Rauvolfia odontophora Van Heurck & Müll.Arg. |
synonym | Rauvolfia subpubescens L. |
synonym | Rauvolfia tomentosa Jacq. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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A small, much-branched woody shrub, 0.6-1.2 m high. Leaves whorled, ovate-elliptic. Flowers greenish-white or creamy-white in umbellate cymes. Fruits (drupes) ovoid, deep red or purple when ripe; seeds oblong, rugose.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Plains, Cultivated and Naturalized
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Cosmopolitian
Forest plantations also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Kerala: Alapuzha, Idukki, Kannur, Kasaragod, Kozhikode, Malapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Wynad
Tamil Nadu: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Global Distribution
Introduced from West Indies; now naturalised in Western Peninsular India
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Global Distribution
India: Assam, Bihar
Local Distribution
Throughout Assam
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4154
Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4154 |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Rauvolfia tetraphylla L., Sp. Pl. 208. 1753; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 165. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 230. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 279. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 422. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 293. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 282. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 417. 1997; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 429. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 523. 2009.
- Rauvolfia canescens L., Sp. Pl. (ed. 2) 303. 1762; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 808(568). 1923.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4154
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Rauvolfia tetraphylla L., Sp. Pl. 208. 1753; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 165. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 230. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 279. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 422. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 293. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 282. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 417. 1997; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 429. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 523. 2009.
- Rauvolfia canescens L., Sp. Pl. (ed. 2) 303. 1762; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 808(568). 1923.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4154
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Gentianales |
Family | Apocynaceae |
Genus | Rauvolfia |
Species | Rauvolfia tetraphylla L. |
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