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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Rauvolfia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Rauvolfia

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Gentiananae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Apocynales Bromhead pub. 1838       Familia  Apocynaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 143. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Dogbanes       Subfamilia  Rauvolfioideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 1054. Apr-Dec 1834.       Tribus  Rauvolfieae Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 205. Sep 1830.       Subtribus  Rauvolfiinae Benth. & Hook.f. pub. Gen. Pl. 2: 684. 1-16 Mai 1876.       Genus  Rauvolfia L. pub. (1753) common name: devil's-pepper

Named members of the Genus Rauvolfia

1	Species  canescens L. syn. Rauvolfia tetraphylla
2	Species  degeneri Sherff syn. Rauvolfia sandwicensis
3	Species  forbesii Sherff syn. Rauvolfia sandwicensis
4	Species  helleri Sherff syn. Rauvolfia sandwicensis
5	Species  heterophylla Roemer & Schultes syn. Rauvolfia tetraphylla
6	Species  lamarckii A. DC. syn. Rauvolfia viridis
7	Species  mauiensis Sherff syn. Rauvolfia sandwicensis
8	Species  molokaiensis Sherff
	9    Varietas  parvifolia O. Deg. & Sherff syn. Rauvolfia sandwicensis
10	Species  nitida Jacq. common name: palo amargo  (Mexico)
11	Species  remotiflora O. Deg. & Sherff syn. Rauvolfia sandwicensis
12	Species  sandwicensis A. DC.
	13    Varietas  subcuminata Sherff syn. Rauvolfia sandwicensis
14	Species  serpentina (L.) Benth. ex Kurz common name: serpentine wood, sarpagandha  (Hindi), Indian snakeroot
15	Species  tetraphylla L. common name: be still tree
16	Species  viridis Willd. ex Roemer & J.A. Schultes common name: milkbush
17	Species  vomitoria Afzelius common name: poison devil's-pepper

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.