Uncaria rhynchophylla Miq.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Uncaria

Characteristics

Lianas, height unknown. Young stems slender, weakly to markedly quadrangular, glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Petiole 5-15 mm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery and often red-brown or dark red, elliptic, lanceolate, or elliptic-oblong, 5-12 × 3-7 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, often glaucous abaxially, base cuneate, obtuse, or rounded, apex acute to usually acuminate; secondary veins 4-8 pairs, sometimes with pilosulous domatia; stipules often deciduous, lanceolate to ovate, 4-15 mm, 2-lobed for up to 4/5, glabrous, lobes linear to triangular-lanceolate or ovate, acute to acuminate. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, solitary or usually in terminal groups of 7-11, glabrous; peduncles 1.5-5 cm, simple; bracts 1-4 mm; flowering heads 4-8 mm in diam. across calyces, 12-15 mm in diam. across corollas; bracteoles linear or linear-spatulate, ca. 2 mm. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx with hypanthium portion obconic, ca. 1 mm, densely strigillose to strigose; limb densely strigillose, ca. 1 mm, lobed for 1/2 or more; lobes triangular to spatulate, acute to obtuse. Corolla color unknown, salverform, outside puberulent to glabrous; tube 5.5-6 mm; lobes ovate, 1.5-2 mm, rounded to obtuse. Fruiting head 10-20 mm in diam. Fruit sessile or subsessile, obovoid to fusiform, 5-7 mm, strigillose to strigose; seeds 2-3 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Dec.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

Woodland in central and southern Japan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

Uses brewing medicinal
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Therapeutic use Headache (unspecified), Antispasmodic (unspecified), Cold (unspecified), Convulsion (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Flushing (unspecified), Hepatitis (unspecified), Hypertension (unspecified), Liver (unspecified), Nerves (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Vertigo (unspecified), Apoplexy (unspecified), Puerperium (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Bilious (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Neuritis (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Images

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Distribution

Uncaria rhynchophylla world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:768297-1
WFO ID wfo-0000329305
COL ID 8X8ZR
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Synonyms

Ourouparia rhynchophylla Nauclea rhynchophylla Uncaria rhynchophylla Uncaria rhynchophylla var. kouteng