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The genus Uncaria is in the family Rubiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Uncaria

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Uncaria acida (Hunter) Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria africana G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria attenuata Korth.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria barbata Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria bernaysii F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria borneensis Havil.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria callophylla Blume ex Korth.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria canescens Korth.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria cordata (Lour.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria donisii E.M.A.Petit	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria dosedlae Gilli	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria elliptica R.Br. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria gambir (Hunter) Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria hirsuta Havil.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria homomalla Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria kunstleri King	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria laevigata Wall. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria lancifolia Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria lanosa Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria longiflora (Poir.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria macrophylla Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria nervosa Elmer	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria oligoneura Korth.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria orientalis Guillaumin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria paucinervis Teijsm. & Binn.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria perrottetii (A.Rich.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria rostrata Pierre ex Pit.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria roxburghiana Korth.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria scandens (Sm.) Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria schlenckerae S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria sessilifructus Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria sinensis (Oliv.) Havil.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria sterrophylla Merr. & L.M.Perry	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria talbotii Wernham	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria velutina Havil.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncaria yunnanensis K.C.Hsia	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 110 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Uncaria. Of these 39 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 40 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Uncaria. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 110 species names for the genus Uncaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	39	35.5%
◕	Synonym	71	64.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 150 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Uncaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	57	38.0%
◕	Synonym	93	62.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 110 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Uncaria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	38	70	0	0	108	98.2%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.9%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	0	1	0.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Uncaria, are as follows: