Mitragyna rotundifolia

Mitragyna rotundifolia

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Gentianales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Cinchonoideae
Tribus: Naucleeae
Genus: Mitragyna
Species: Mitragyna rotundifolia

Name edit

Mitragyna rotundifolia (Roxb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 289 (1891)

Synonymy edit

  • Basionym
  • Homotypic
    • Stephegyne rotundifolia Kurz, Prelim. Rep. For. Veg. Pegu, App. B.: 60 (1875), in clavi.
  • Heterotypic
    • Nauclea brunonis Wall. [Cat. 6097] ex G.Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 467 (1834); not accepted by Hooker (1880: 26), Pitard (1922: 43) [cited as Stephegyne diversifolia], Ridsdale (1978: 67) and Chen & Taylor (2011) [cited as Mitragyna rotundifolia]
    • Mitragyna brunonis (Wall. ex G.Don) Craib, Fl. Siam. 2(1): 11 (1932); not accepted by Ridsdale (1978: 67) and Chen & Taylor (2011) [cited as Mitragyna rotundifolia]

Misapplied names edit

  • Nauclea diversifolia auct. non Wall. ex G.Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 467 (1834): Edward Balfour, Timber Trees India: 178 (1862)
  • Stephegyne diversifolia auct. non (Wall. ex G.Don) Brandis, Forest Fl. N.W. India: 263 (1874): Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 26 (1880), pro parte; Prain, Bengal Pl. 1 (1903), repr.: 404 (1963); Brandis, Indian Trees: 370 (1906); Pit., Fl. Indo-Chine [P.H. Lecomte et al.] 3: 43 (1922); C.E.Parkinson, Forest Fl. Andaman Is.: 185 (1923)
  • Mitragyna diversifolia auct. non (Wall. ex G.Don) Havil.: Havil., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 33: 71 (1897), pro parte; King & Gamble, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 72(4): 118 (1903 publ. 1904), pro parte; Kanjilal & Das, Fl. Assam 3: 16 (1939)
    • Note: see Ridsdale (1978: 67).

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Asia-Temperate
    • Regional: China
      • China South-Central (Yunnan).
  • Continental: Asia-Tropical
    • Regional: Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam (Assam, Mizoram, Tripura), Bangladesh, East Himalaya.
    • Regional: Indo-China
      • Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References edit

Primary references edit

  • Kuntze, O. 1891. Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Pars I. Pp. I–CLV, 1–374. Arthur Felix, Leipzig [etc.] BHL Reference page

Additional references edit

Links edit

Vernacular names edit

ភាសាខ្មែរ: ក្ទម្ព (Headley, Rath Chim & Ok Soeum 1997)
မြန်မာဘာသာ: ဘင်္ဂ (Brandis 1906: 370 [as 'Bingah']; Judson, Stevenson & Eveleth 1921: 719)
ไทย: กระทุ่มเนิน
中文: 帽蕊木
  For more multimedia, look at Mitragyna rotundifolia on Wikimedia Commons.