Tabernaemontana alternifolia

Tabernaemontana alternifolia
Leaves and flowers
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Genus:	Tabernaemontana
Species:	T. alternifolia
Binomial name
Tabernaemontana alternifolia L.
Synonyms[1]
Ervatamia alternifolia (L.) S.M.Almeida Ervatamia heyneana (Wall.) T.Cooke Pagiantha crispa (Roxb.) Markgr. Pagiantha heyneana (Wall.) Markgr. Tabernaemontana crispa Roxb. Tabernaemontana heyneana Wall. Tabernaemontana intercedens Van Heurck & Müll.Arg. Tabernaemontana oblonga Wall.

Tabernaemontana alternifolia is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) family. It is endemic to India.

Taxonomy

The name Tabernaemontana heyneana Wall. has often been used for this species, and a proposal was made to conserve that name so that it would be used instead of T. alternifolia.^[2] Arguments made for conservation were that the type of the species was not a specimen but an illustration, and that the plant has opposite leaves, not alternate leaves as alternifolia implies.^[2] However, the proposal was rejected, and the correct name of this species is the original name, T. alternifolia.^[3]

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  Unripe fruit

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  Ripe fruit

References

1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
2. Middleton, D.; Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (1998). "(1355) Proposal to conserve the name Tabernaemontana heyneana (Apocynaceae)". Taxon 47 (2): 481–482. doi:10.2307/1223795.
3. Brummitt, R.K. (2000). "Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 49". Taxon 49 (2): 261–278. doi:10.2307/1223840.

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tabernaemontana heyneana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2007.

External links

• BIOTIK database entry