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Uncaria lanosa

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Wallich

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland - Australia
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Caroline Islands
• Taiwan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Malacca
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest margins

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Slender climber or creeper clothed in long rust-coloured hairs, hairy leaves to 85mm x 35mm, axillary whorls with 4 glabrous bracts, glabrous calyx with 5 hairy lobes, yellowish-white corolla, tube 20mm long with glabrous lobes, fruit an ash-coloured capsule 8mm long, upper surface of leaves glabrous

Further References

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