Uncaria gambir(W.Hunter) Roxb.

gambir

WFO wfo-0000329239 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Uncaria gambir, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. a Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-12 / obs. 156855715
Uncaria gambir, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. b Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156855719
Uncaria gambir, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. c Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157287812

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Uncaria gambir is native: Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Sumatera BorneoJawaMalayaSumatera
Native distribution of Uncaria gambir, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Sumatera SUM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cinchona kattukambar J.Koenig ex D.M.Retz.
  • Nauclea gambir W.Hunter
  • Ourouparia gambir (W.Hunter) Baill.
  • Uncaria gambir var. angulata Wawra
  • Uncaria gambir var. latifolia S.Moore
  • Uncaria yunnanensis K.C.Hsia
  • Uruparia gambier (W.Hunter) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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