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Rauvolfia amsoniifolia DC.

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Rauvolfia in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Prodr. 8: 338 (1844).

Indonesia: parempasa, pamedang (Sulawesi). Philippines: sibakong (Tagalog), banogan (Panay Bisaya), maladita (Bikol, Bukidnon).

The Philippines, Timor, southern Sulawesi, southern Moluccas (Tanimbar Islands and Kai Islands).

In the Philippines, a decoction of the bark is used as a stomachic and young leaves are used to treat stomach disorders in babies. In Indonesia, a decoction of the leaves is used as a laxative and febrifuge, and to stimulate delivery, the bark to treat framboesia.

A shrub or small tree up to 15 m tall; leaves verticillate, lanceolate, 6-12 cm x 1.5-3 cm; flowers with campanulate-infundibuliform corolla tube at most twice the length of the calyx; fruit nearly obreniform. Rauvolfia amsoniifolia occurs in lowland rain forest and in secondary thickets.

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[580] Heyne, K., 1950. De nuttige planten van Indonesië [The useful plants of Indonesia]. 3rd Edition. 2 volumes. W. van Hoeve, 's-Gravenhage, the Netherlands/Bandung, Indonesia. 1660 + CCXLI pp.
[905] Markgraf, F., 1984. Florae Malesianae Praecursores LXIV. Apocynaceae VI. Rauvolfia. Blumea 30: 157-167.
[1178] Quisumbing, E., 1978. Medicinal plants of the Philippines. Katha Publishing Co., Quezon City, the Philippines. 1262 pp.

Tran Dinh Ly & Pham Duy Mai

Tran Dinh Ly & Pham Duy Mai, 1999. Rauvolfia amsoniifolia DC.. In: de Padua, L.S., Bunyapraphatsara, N. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(1): Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea