Barachandrika / Garden Rauvolfia
Rauvolfia tetraphylla
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Rauvolfia tetraphylla
- Genus
- Rauvolfia
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Forest plantations also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest, Cultivated
- Native to
- West Indies
- Distribution
- Cultivated in other parts of the World
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Odisha, Telangana, Haryana, Puducherry, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Typical of the Apocynaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Follicle
Characters marked “recorded” are for Barachandrika itself; the rest are typical of the Apocynaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- बडा चन्द्रिका barachandrika, Chandrabhaga
- Bengali
- বড চন্দ্রিকা bar chandrika, গন্ধনকুলী gandhanakuli
- Tamil
- Pampukaalaachchedi
- Telugu
- papataku
- Kannada
- ದೊಡ್ಡ ಚಂದ್ರಿಕೆ Dodda chandrike
- Malayalam
- Pampumkolli, Kattamalpori, പാമ്പുംകൊല്ലി
About Barachandrika
Garden Rauvolfia (Rauvolfia tetraphylla) is a shrub in the Apocynaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and 17 other states. It grows in forest plantations also in the plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Apocynaceae
Dogbane family
Barachandrika belongs to the Apocynaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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