Rauvolfia amsoniifolia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Rauvolfia amsoniifolia DC.

Protologue: Prodr. 8: 338 (1844).

Vernacular names

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

Distribution

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

Uses

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.

Observations

• A shrub or small tree up to 15 m tall; l.
• Leaves verticillate, lanceolate, 6-12 cm × 1.5-3 cm.
• Flowers with campanulate-infundibuliform corolla tube at most twice the length of the calyx.
• Fruit nearly obreniform.

R. amsoniifolia occurs in lowland rain forest and in secondary thickets.

Selected sources

• [332] de Padua, L.S., Lugod, G.C. & Pancho, J.V., 1977-1983. Handbook on Philippine medicinal plants. 4 volumes. Documentation and Information Section, Office of the Director of Research, University of the Philippines at Los Baños, the Philippines.
• [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.

Main genus page

• Rauvolfia (Medicinal plants)

Authors

• Tran Dinh Ly & Pham Duy Mai