Uncaria
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyRubiaceae
Common Name: chun-tu-co (Japanese)
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 837
- With media
- 696
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Collections
- CAS, BRIT, MEL, MICH
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia
Research
913 papers- Uncaria tomentosa.Giornale italiano di dermatologia e venereologia : organo ufficiale, Societa italiana di dermatologia e sifilografia · 2017
- Uncaria tomentosa as a Promising Natural Source of Molecules with Multiple Activities: Review of Its Ethnomedicinal Uses, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
- Uncaria rhynchophylla and its Major Constituents on Central Nervous System: A Review on Their Pharmacological Actions.Current vascular pharmacology · 2020
- The genus Uncaria: A review on phytochemical metabolites and biological aspects.Fitoterapia · 2020
- [Steroids from Uncaria rhynchophylla].Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica · 2022
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Species
- Uses
- Adverse effects
- References
- External links
Uncaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 40 species. Their distribution is pantropical, with most species native to tropical Asia, three from Africa and the Mediterranean and two from the neotropics. They are known colloquially as gambier, '''cat's claw or uña de gato'. The latter two names are shared with several other plants. The type species for the genus is Uncaria guianensis.
Indonesian Gambier (U. gambir) is a large tropical vine with leaves typical of the genus, being opposite and about long. The South American U. tomentosa is called Uña de Gato. Uncaria sinensis is common in China.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uncaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.