Rauvolfia sumatranaJack

WFO wfo-0000295190 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rauvolfia sumatrana, photographed by Amy
fig. a Amy, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-13 / obs. 136174601
Rauvolfia sumatrana, photographed by Amy
fig. b Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136174624
Rauvolfia sumatrana, photographed by Amy
fig. c Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136174650
Rauvolfia sumatrana, photographed by Amy
fig. d Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136174679

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Rauvolfia sumatrana is native: China Southeast, Andaman Is., Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China SoutheastBorneoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Rauvolfia sumatrana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyrtosiphonia madurensis Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Cyrtosiphonia reflexa (Teijsm. & Binn.) Miq.
  • Cyrtosiphonia spectabilis Miq.
  • Cyrtosiphonia sumatrana (Jack) Miq.
  • Rauvolfia blumeana Valeton ex Koord.-Schum.
  • Rauvolfia madurensis (Teijsm. & Binn.) Burck ex Koord.-Schum.
  • Rauvolfia madurensis (Teijsm. & Binn.) Boerl.
  • Rauvolfia palawanensis Elmer
  • Rauvolfia reflexa Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Rauvolfia samarensis Merr.
  • Rauvolfia spectabilis (Miq.) Boerl.
  • Rauvolfia sumatrana var. longifolia Blume

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.