
GENUS
Common Name: chun-tu-co (Japanese)
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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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).