Rauvolfia TETRAPHYLLA L.
| Synonym : | Rauvolfia canescens L. Rauvolfia hirsuta Jacq. Rauvolfia subpubescens L. Rauvolfia tomentosa Jacq. |
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| Bangla Name : | Bara Chadar, Sarpagandha. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Apocynaceae |
| Disease : | similar disease of Rauvolfia serpentina |
| Description : | A small much-branched woody shrub, 0.6-1.2 m high. Leaves whorled, elliptic. Flowers greenish white or creamy white in umbellate cymes, drupes ovoid, deep purple when ripe, pyrenes rugose, oblong. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong and Rajshahi. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Plant contains the alkaloid rauvolscine, 0.1% in root bark, 0.2% in stem bark and 0.2% in the leaves (Chopra et. al., 1992). A new sarpagine-type alkaloid, N (a)-Demethylaccedine, has been isolated from the plant (Ghani, 2003). |
| Uses : | Roots have got similar actions as Rauvolfia serpentina. |
| Habit : | Shrub |