Allamanda schottii Pohl, Apocynaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Other Latin names:  Allamanda cathartica var. schottii (Pohl) L. H. Bailey & Raffill; Allamanda neriifolia Hook.

Common name(s): [more details]

English: allamanda, bush allamanda

Fijian: yere

Habit:  shrub

Description:  "Shrubs erect, to 2 m tall, with clear sap. Leaves in whorls of 3-5, subsessile; leaf blade elliptic or narrowly obovate, 5-14 x 2-4 cm, minutely hispid along veins; lateral veins elevated on abaxial surface. Flowers 4-6 cm. Corolla tube rather narrowly funnelform, ca. 3 cm, distinctly swollen at base, limb ca. 4 cm in diameter; lobes pale yellow, ovate or orbicular, ca. 2 cm, obtuse. Capsules globose, ca. 3 cm in diameter, long spiny. Seeds ca. 2 x 1.5 cm"  (Flora of China online).

Habitat/ecology:  In Fiji, "cultivated near sea level and sometimes naturalized"  (Smith, 1988; p. 101).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  French Guiana and Brazil (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Cook Islands Southern Cook Islands	Rarotonga Island	introduced cultivated	McCormack, Gerald (2008)
Ecuador (Galápagos Islands) Santa Cruz Group	Santa Cruz Island	introduced cultivated	Charles Darwin Foundation (2008)
Fiji Fiji Islands	Ovalau Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Smith, Albert C. (1988) (p. 102) Voucher cited: Smith 7483
Fiji Fiji Islands	Viti Levu Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Smith, Albert C. (1988) (p. 102) Vouchers cited: DA 16787, DA 12089
French Polynesia Society Islands	Raiatea (Havai) Island		Fosberg, F. R. (1997) (p. 6)
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island		Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1927) (voucher ID: BISH 23563) Taxon name on voucher: Allamanda schottii Pohl

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
China China	China (People's Republic of)	introduced cultivated	Harvard University (2007) "Cultivated for medicine and as an ornamental".

Additional information:
Additional online information about Allamanda schottii is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Allamanda schottii as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Allamanda schottii may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

Other Latin names:  Allamanda cathartica var. schottii (Pohl) L. H. Bailey & Raffill; Allamanda neriifolia Hook.

References:

Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.). 1927. Voucher specimen #BISH23563(C.M.Cooke Jr 6).

Charles Darwin Foundation. 2008. Database inventory of introduced plant species in the rural and urban zones of Galapagos. Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Fosberg, F. R. 1997. Preliminary checklist of the flowering plants and ferns of the Society Islands. Ed. by David R. Stoddart. U. Cal. Berkeley.

Harvard University. 2007. Flora of China (online resource).

McCormack, Gerald. 2008. Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga.

Smith, Albert C. 1988. Flora Vitiensis nova: a new flora of Fiji. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii. Volume 4. 377 pp.

Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. 2005. A tropical garden flora: plants cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 908 pp.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2009. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.