Kopsia fruticosa, Shrub Vinca, Dakur, Malakankopsia

Kopsia fruticosa (Roxb.) A.DC.
Family: Apocynaceae

• Common name: Shrub Vinca, Pink Kopsia, Pink Gardenia
• Bengali: Dakur
• Chinese: 红花蕊木
• Finnish: Malakankopsia

Description: Shrubs evergreen, to 4 m tall, glabrous except for inflorescences. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong, 10-23 X 2.5-9 cm, apex acute or obtusely caudate; lateral veins 10-15 pairs. Inflorescences few flowered, puberulent; peduncle to 1 cm; bracteoles to 1.5 mm, pubescent. Pedicel 5-7 mm. Sepals ovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm, pubescent, apex obtuse. Corolla pink, tube 3-5 cm, throat pubescent; lobes oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm. Disc scales sublinear, as long as or shorter than ovary. Ovary tomentose. Style 3-4 cm. Drupe ellipsoid, usually solitary, 1-seeded, to 2.5 X 2 cm, pubescent. 2n = 36. 

7 Published articles of Kopsia fruticosa
1. Venalstonine and dioxokopsan derivatives from Kopsia fruticosa
By: Kam, TS; Choo, YM
PHYTOCHEMISTRY  Volume: 65   Issue: 14   Pages: 2119-2122   Published: JUL 2004

2. Mersinine A from Kopsia fruticosa
By: Subramaniam, G; Kam, TS; Ng, SW
ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION E-STRUCTURE REPORTS ONLINE  Volume: 59   Pages: O555-O557   Part: 4   Published: APR 2003

3. TRITERPENOID CONSTITUENTS OF STEM-BARK OF KOPSIA FRUTICOSA A. DC.
By: TALAPATR.SK; BHATTACH.M
JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY  Volume: 45   Issue: 10   Pages: 962-&   Published: 1968

4. DIE STRUKTUR DER ALKALOIDE FRUTICOSIN UND FRUTICOSAMIN UND IHRE SYNTHESE AUS KOPSIN
By: GUGGISBE.A; HESSE, M; VONPHILI.W; et al.
HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA  Volume: 49   Issue: 7   Pages: 2321-&   Published: 1966

5. NOTIZ UBER DIE ALKALOIDE VON KOPSIA FRUTICOSA
By: GUGGISBERG, A; NAGARAJAN, K; GOVINDACHARI, TR; et al.
HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA  Volume: 46   Issue: 2   Pages: 679-&   Published: 1963

6. STUDIES ON THE DEGRADATION OF KOPSINE, THE ALKALOID OF KOPSIA-FRUTICOSA .2.
By: BHATTACHARYA, A
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY  Volume: 75   Issue: 2   Pages: 381-383   Published: 1953

7. ON AN ALKALOID OF KOPSIA-FRUTICOSA .1.
By: BHATTACHARYA, A; CHATTERJEE, A; BOSE, PK
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY  Volume: 71   Issue: 10   Pages: 3370-3372   Published: 1949