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Uncaria guianensis

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Aublet) J.F. Gmelin

Common Names

• Bereoquida (Tacana)
• Una de Gato (Spanish)
• Uña de Gavialán (Venezuela)
• Tambor Huasca (Peru)
• You Rouoari (Venezuela)
• Liane-acrochet (French)
• Paraguayo or Garabato or Ancayacu Garabato Blanco or Garabato Amarillo Ancajsillo (Spanish)
• Cat's Claw or Hawk's Claw
• Tambor Huasca or Unganangui or Bejuco de Agua or Parawasipo (Ka'apor)
• Popokainangra (Suriname)
• Uña de águila (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Rondonia
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• disturbed areas
• forests
• riversides
• streamsides
• seasonally inundated areas
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Liana or stout coarse scandent shrub to 30m with stout recurved spines. Glabrous simple leaves to 300mm diameter. Axillary & terminal racemes to 25mm diameter of many-flowered spherical umbels of small white, green, blackish or yellow turning red very fragrant flowers 11mm long, lower peduncles converted to hooked spines pubescent calyx to 5mm long with 4-6 lobes, white pilose corolla 11mm long with 4-6 lobes & red blotches. Brown fruit, a glabrate capsule 40mm x 5mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Kew
• FOPE
• PMAP
• IIAP
• Academia