Rauvolfia

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Rauvolfia

Description

Shrubs, trees or sometimes rhizomatous under-shrubs, with white latex; Leaves mostly in whorls of 3-7, often confined to the apices of the branchlets, sometimes opposite on the lower nodes, glabrous, petiole varies considerably in length; Inflorescence terminal, sometimes seemingly lateral, lax or congested, a few- to many-flowered cyme, glabrous or pubescent; Sepals without colleters. Stamens free from the style head, included or exserted; Fruit of apocarpous or partly to completely syncarpous drupes, often only 1 carpel developing, each carpel contains a single seed. Seeds laterally compressed, obliquely ovoid or ellipsoid.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Pantropical present
A pantropical genus of c. 60 species; in Malesia 9 species.

Citation

Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 230
L. 1999 – In: PROSEA: 424
K. Schum. 1895 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4: 153
D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand: 50
H. Huber 1983 – In: Abeyw. (ed.), Revis. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 47
L. 1949 – In: Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 162
Hendrian & D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Blumea: 450
P.T. Li et al. 1995 – In: Fl. China: 157
H. Huber 1973 – In: Abeyw. (ed.), Revis. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 15
Pit. 1933 – In: Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 3: 1114
Pichon 1947 – In: Bull. Soc. Bot. France: 31
Lý 1986 – In: Feddes Repert.: 423
Benth. & Hook.f. 1876 – In: Gen. Pl.: 697
A.DC. 1844 – In: Prodr.: 336
L. 2004 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 46
Tsiang & P.T. Li 1977 – In: Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin.: 46
Markgr. 1984 – In: Blumea: 157