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The genus Rauvolfia is in the family Apocynaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Rauvolfia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Rauvolfia amsoniifolia A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia andina Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia aphlebia (Standl.) A.H.Gentry	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia bahiensis A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia balansae (Baill.) Boiteau	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia biauriculata Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia caffra Sond.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia capixabae I.Koch & Kin.-Gouv.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia capuronii Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia chaudocensis Pierre ex Pit.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia cubana A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia decurva Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia dichotoma K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia gracilis I.Koch & Kin.-Gouv.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia grandiflora Mart. ex A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia hookeri S.R.Sriniv. & Chithra	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia indosinensis Pichon	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia insularis Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia × ivanovii Granda & V.R.Fuentes	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia javanica Koord. & Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia kamarora Hendrian	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia leptophylla A.S.Rao	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia letouzeyi Leeuwenb.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia ligustrina Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia linearifolia Britton & P.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia littoralis Rusby	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia macrantha K.Schum. ex Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia mannii Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia mattfeldiana Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia maxima Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia media Pichon	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia micrantha Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia microcarpa Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia moluccana Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia mombasiana Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia moricandii A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia nana E.A.Bruce	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia nitida Jacq.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia obtusiflora A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia oligantha Hendrian	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia pachyphylla Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia paraensis Ducke	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia paucifolia A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia peguana Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia pentaphylla Ducke	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia polyphylla Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia praecox K.Schum. ex Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia pruinosifolia I.Koch & Kin.-Gouv.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia purpurascens Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia rhonhofiae Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia rivularis Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia rostrata Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia sachetiae Fosberg	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia salicifolia Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia sanctorum Woodson	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia sandwicensis A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia schuelii Speg.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia sellowii Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia semperflorens (Müll.Arg.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Benth. ex Kurz	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia sevenetii Boiteau	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia spathulata Boiteau	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia sprucei Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia steyermarkii Woodson	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia sumatrana Jack	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia tetraphylla L.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia tiaolushanensis Tsiang	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia verticillata (Lour.) Baill.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia vietnamensis Lý	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia viridis Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia volkensii (K.Schum.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia vomitoria Afzel.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia weddeliana Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Rauvolfia woodsoniana Standl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 198 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Rauvolfia. Of these 74 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 25 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Rauvolfia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 198 species names for the genus Rauvolfia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	74	37.4%
◕	Synonym	114	57.6%
◕	Unplaced	7	3.5%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.5%

All names

The status of the 223 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Rauvolfia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	35.0%
◕	Synonym	135	60.5%
◕	Unplaced	7	3.1%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.3%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 7 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 198 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Rauvolfia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	74	112	0	0	186	93.9%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	7	3	10	5.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Rauvolfia, are as follows: