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Rauvolfia sandwicensis

(Devil's-Pepper)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Devil's-Pepper

Description

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Genus Rauvolfia

Trees or shrubs with latex. Leaves whorled , rarely opposite, with glands axillary and sometimes on petiole . Cymes pedunculate , terminal or axillary, each branch ends in as many inflorescences and/or branches as leaves in a whorl. Calyx deeply divided , without glands. Corolla white, yellow, green, or pink, rarely with a red tube , salverform or campanulate ; tube cylindric, swollen on 1 side at or above middle , villous inside distal half, throat not scaly , often with long hairs inside; lobes overlapping to left. Stamens inserted in widening of corolla tube; filaments very short; anthers ovate , free from pistil head , base rounded ; disc ringlike or cup-shaped, entire or lobed at apex. Ovaries 2, free or connate . Style filiform ; pistil head drum-shaped, with a pendulous ring , apex shortly 2-cleft. Drupes 2, distinct or connate. Seed 1, without coma.

About 60 species: Africa, Asia, America; seven species in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Tree , Shrub

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Rauvolfia degeneri Sherff
  2. Rauvolfia forbesii Sherff
  3. Rauvolfia helleri Sherff
  4. Rauvolfia mauiensis Sherff
  5. Rauvolfia molokaiensis Sherff
  6. Rauvolfia molokaiensis var. parvifolia O. Deg. & Sherff
  7. Rauvolfia remotiflora O. Deg. & Sherff
  8. Rauvolfia sandwicensis var. subcuminata Sherff

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 02-Nov-2003

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Rauvolfia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 132 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

R. affinis var. subulata · R. amoena · R. amsoniifolia · R. andina · R. aphlebia · R. bahiensis · R. balansae · R. beddomei · R. biauriculata · R. blanchetii · R. boliviana · R. brevistyla · R. caffra · R. cambodiana · R. canescens · R. canescens var. tomentosa · R. capuronii · R. chaudocensis · R. chinensis · R. confertiflora · R. congolana · R. cubana · R. cumminsii · R. degeneri · R. densiflora · R. dichotoma · R. divergens · R. duckei · R. elliptica · R. glabra · R. gonioclada · R. grandiflora · R. heterophylla · R. hirsuta · R. hookeri · R. indecora · R. inebrians · R. javanica · R. kamarora · R. lamarckii · R. lamarkii · R. latifrons · R. leptophylla · R. letouceyi · R. letouzeyi · R. leucopoda · R. ligustrina · R. linearifolia · R. littoralis · R. longifolia · R. macrantha · R. macrocarpa · R. macrophylla · R. mannii · R. mattfeldiana · R. mauiensis · R. mayombensis · R. media · R. micrantha · R. mollis · R. mollissima · R. molokaiensis · R. mombasiana · R. monopyrena · R. nana · R. natalensis · R. nitida (Smooth Rauwolfia) · R. nitidissima · R. obliquinervis · R. obscura · R. obtusiflora · R. obversa · R. ochrosioides · R. odontophora · R. oreogiton · R. oxyphylla · R. pachyphylla · R. paraensis · R. parvifolia · R. parvifolia var. cubana · R. paucifolia · R. pentaphylla · R. perakensis · R. polyphylla · R. praecox · R. preussii · R. pulaparia · R. purpurascens · R. reflexa · R. remotiflora · R. rivularis · R. rosea · R. sachetiae · R. salicifolia · R. samarensis · R. sanctorum · R. sandwicensis (Devil's-Pepper) · R. sarapiquensis · R. schueli · R. schuelii

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Rauvolfia". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 157. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009