Uncaria

Accepted species 38 Documented here 5 Family Rubiaceae

Accepted species 38 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Uncaria hirsuta Havil. 30 documented
Uncaria longiflora (Poir.) Merr. 8 documented
Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. 6 documented
Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel. 5 documented
Uncaria gambir (W.Hunter) Roxb. 3 documented
Uncaria lanosa Wall. 2 below the evidence gate
Uncaria tomentosa (Willd. ex Schult.) DC. 1 below the evidence gate
Uncaria acida (W.Hunter) Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria africana G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria angolensis (Havil.) Welw. ex Hutch. & Dalziel 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria attenuata Korth. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria barbata Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria bernaysii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria borneensis Havil. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria callophylla Blume ex Korth. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria canescens Korth. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria cordata (Lour.) Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria domatiifera (E.M.A.Petit) O.Lachenaud & Ntore 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria donisii E.M.A.Petit 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria elliptica R.Br. ex G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria homomalla Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria kunstleri King 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria laevigata Wall. ex G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria lancifolia Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria macrophylla Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria nervosa Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria orientalis Guillaumin 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria ovata R.Br. ex Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria perrottetii (A.Rich.) Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria rhynchophylloides F.C.How 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria roxburghiana Korth. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria scandens (Sm.) Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria schlenckerae S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria sessilifructus Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria sinensis (Oliv.) Havil. 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria sterrophylla Merr. & L.M.Perry 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria talbotii Wernham 0 below the evidence gate
Uncaria velutina Havil. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.