• Sunil M. Akare
• Alka Chaturvedi

Rauvolfia tetraphylla L. (Apocynaceae) is a small perennial woody shrub with huge medicinal properties flowers more or less throughout the year. Flowers are small, white to creamy white born on apical portion of branches in umbellate cyme. They are hermaphrodite with small floral tube comprising nectar deep at the base of the corolla tube and introse anthers form cone around the apex of style head where pollens are deposited. Anthesis occurs during 06:30 to 08:30 h and anther dehisced between 07:30 to 09:00 h on the day of anthesis. Flowers survive for one day and are self-incompatible. Pollination is mainly brought about by insects (entomophily).

Anthesis, Self-incompatible, Rauvolfia tetraphylla

"Floral Biology of ‘Wild Snake Root’ (Rauvolfia Tetraphylla L.)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.409-420, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811054.pdf

"Floral Biology of ‘Wild Snake Root’ (Rauvolfia Tetraphylla L.)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp409-420, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811054.pdf