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Uncaria acida

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(W. Hunter) Roxburgh

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Brunei
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Malacca
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Moluccas
• Myanmar
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• woodland
• swamp forest
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Mar (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Dec (Vietnam)

Large slender liana or creeper, quadrangular glabrous stems, glabrous coriaceous leaves to 90mm x 50mm, axillary & terminal solitary inflorescence to 25mm across, white flowers, 5 villous sepals 1mm x 0.75mm, tomentose calyx tube 2mm x 1mm with glabrous lobes, pubescent corolla to 15mm long, 5 pubescent petals 1.5mm x 1mm, corolla tube pubescent 5mm long, yellow coriaceous capsule 13mm x 2.5mm with persistent sepals, peduncles become spines

Further References

• USNH
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• Kew
• GBS