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Uncaria scandens

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Smith) Wallich

Common Names

• Pan jing gou teng (Pinyin)
• Kyettet (Myanmar)
• Unku-ju-ru (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Yunnan
• Sichuan
• Xizang - China
• Assam - India
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest

Flowering Times

• Mar Summer

Fruiting Times

Climbing or creeping shrub or large woody pubescent liana with solitary axillary cymes of pale yellow or greenish-yellow flowers, 5 sepals 2mm long with tube 2mm long, 5 pubescent petals 2mm long, pubescent corolla tube 11mm long, lobes 2mm long, glabrous fruit to 11mm long surmounted by calyx lobes, hairy leaves 125mm x 80mm slightly scabrous above pubescent beneath

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew
• JAA