Rauvolfia mannii Stapf

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Lomami River, DRCongo. © National Botanic Garden of Belgium

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Synonyms:	Rauvolfia cardiocarpa K. Schum. Rauvolfia cumminsii Stapf Rauvolfia liberiensis Stapf Rauvolfia longiacuminata De Wild. & T. Durand Rauvolfia obscura K. Schum. Rauvolfia preussii K. Schum. Rauvolfia rosea K. Schum.
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Description:	Understorey shrub or small tree. Bark, scaly, peeling off, greenish- to grey-brown, lenticellate. Leaves in whorls of 3-6, sometimes opposite on some nodes, narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 2.5-28 cm long, long pointed at the apex, glossy, hairless; petiole 1-27 mm long. Inflorescences few-many-flowered on a peduncle up to 6 cm long. Flowers white to pinkish with tube white, yellowish or greenish, often with pink or reddish stripes, 2.5-10.5 mm long. Fruit with capels, ovoid to obovoid, often laterally compressed, 5-12 mm long, bright red when ripe.
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Derivation of specific name:	mannii: after Gustav Mann (1836-1916), British colonial representative in the Gulf of Guinea, who collected plants in that area.
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Worldwide distribution:	Widespread from Liberia to Kenya and South to Angola and Malawi.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 73. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 22. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. & Kupicha, F.K. et al. (1985). Apocynaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 459 - 460.

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