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|accepted_name=Rauvolfia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 208. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Rauvolfia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rauvolfia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Leonhart Rauwolff, 1535–1596, German physician and botanist
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees]; latex milky. <b>Stems</b> erect, unarmed, glabrous [eglandular-pubescent]. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, whorled or sometimes opposite at lower nodes, petiolate; stipular colleters intrapetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, cymose, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent; corolla white or cream [pale purple, pink], rotate [salverform], aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at top of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, not adherent to stigma; connectives not appendiculate or enlarged, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary annular. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, solitary or partly to completely coherent, erect, initially red, maturing black, globose to depressed-globose, smooth, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> ovate, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;introduced also in s Asia;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 80 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Rauvolfia
|author=David E. Lemke
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Apocynaceae
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;introduced also in s Asia;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Rauvolfia
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