Rauvolfia javanica (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Rauvolfia javanica Koord. & Valeton

Protologue: Bijdr. 1: 191 (1894).

• Indonesia: lameh, lameh utan (Sumatra).

Sumatra, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Pounded leaves are used externally to treat wounds.

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 22(-30) m tall with bole up to 65 cm in diameter.
• Leaves 3-4-verticillate, lanceolate, 14-30 cm × 3.5-6.5 cm, petiole rather thick, up to 1 cm long.
• Flowers with campanulate-infundibuliform corolla tube at most twice the length of the calyx.
• Fruit obversely trapezoid.

R. javanica is closely related to R. reflexa and R. sumatrana. It occurs in lowland to lower montane rain forest up to 1800 m altitude, sometimes in open places.

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• Rauvolfia (Medicinal plants)

• Tran Dinh Ly & Pham Duy Mai