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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	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Uncaria acida (Hunter) Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Uncaria africana G.Don	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Uncaria attenuata Korth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria barbata Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria bernaysii F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria borneensis Havil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria callophylla Blume ex Korth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria canescens Korth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria cordata (Lour.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Uncaria donisii E.M.A.Petit	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria dosedlae Gilli	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria elliptica R.Br. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria gambir (Hunter) Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria hirsuta Havil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria homomalla Miq.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria kunstleri King	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria laevigata Wall. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria lancifolia Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria lanosa Wall.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	8
Uncaria longiflora (Poir.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Uncaria macrophylla Wall.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria nervosa Elmer	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria oligoneura Korth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria orientalis Guillaumin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria paucinervis Teijsm. & Binn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria perrottetii (A.Rich.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria rhynchophylloides F.C.How	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria rostrata Pierre ex Pit.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria roxburghiana Korth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria scandens (Sm.) Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria schlenckerae S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria sessilifructus Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria sinensis (Oliv.) Havil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria sterrophylla Merr. & L.M.Perry	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria talbotii Wernham	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria velutina Havil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Uncaria yunnanensis K.C.Hsia	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 207 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Uncaria. Of these 40 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 207 species names for the genus Uncaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	19.3%
◕	Synonym	167	80.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 247 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Uncaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	53	21.5%
◕	Synonym	194	78.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of the species names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate

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

The confidence with which the status of the 207 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Uncaria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	40	165	0	0	205	99.0%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Uncaria is as follows: