Rauvolfia tetraphylla L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 785-805 : 788

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Rauvolfia tetraphylla Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 208. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 1700.

Lectotype (Stearn, Introd. Linnaeus’ Sp. Pl. (Ray Soc. ed.): 47. 1957): [icon] " Rauvolfia " in Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff: 75, t. 9. 1738. - Voucher: Herb. Clifford: 75, Rauvolfia 1 ( BM) .

Generitype of Rauvolfia Linnaeus.

Current name: Rauvolfia tetraphylla L. View in CoL ( Apocynaceae ).

Note: See extensive discussion by Rendle (in Proc. Linn. Soc. London 149: 108. 1937), Rao (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 43: 255, 285. 1956) and Fuchs (in Taxon 9: 37-40. 1960). Leeuwenberg (in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 81. 1993) designated a Clifford sheet as lectotype but this choice is pre-dated by that of Stearn.