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Uncaria homomalla

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Miquel

Common Names

• Bei yue gou teng (Pinyin)
• Na giai (Vietnam)
• Cau dang (Vietnam)
• Day dang queo (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Guangxi
• Yunnan - China
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Assam - India
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr
• May Oct-Mar (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Mar (Vietnam)

Tall pubescent woody liana with quagrangular pubescent stems, leaves 100mm x 55mm, Hairy above, velvety-pubescent beneath, climbing by recurved hooks, axillary cymes or panicles to 20mm long or solitary yellow or green flowers, 5 villous sepals 0.75mm long, villous calyx tube to 1.25 mm, 5 pubescent petals to 1.5mm long villous outside, pubescent corolla tube 7.5mm long, lobes 1.25mm long, fruit capsule 4mm x 2mm surmounted by persistent calyx

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• Kew
• GBS