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Uncaria gambir

(Pale Catechu)

Common Names

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Common Names in Bengali:

Pal Catechu

Common Names in Chinese:

Zong Er Cha

Common Names in English:

Gambier, Gambir, Pale Catechu

Common Names in Swedish:

Gambirkatechu

Description

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Family Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae are trees , shrubs , or infrequently herbs comprising about 450 genera and 6,500 species, including some lianous forms. The leaves are simple and usually entire, and are opposite or sometimes whorled ; stipules are present and interpetiolar . The flowers are nearly always bisexual and actinomorphic , often heterostylous, and usually are in cymose inflorescences. The calyx is mostly somewhat reduced and 4-5-lobed or sometimes the lobes are obsolete or rarely one of them greatly expanded and brightly colored . The sympetalous corolla is mostly 4-5-lobed, occasionally with 3 or up to 10 lobes. The androecium consists of as many stamens as corolla lobes and is adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 or seldom more carpels, a single style, and a nearly always inferior ovary with the number of locules equaling the number of carpels, each with 1-many axile ovules. An epigynous nectary disk is usually present. The fruit is variable, sometimes forming multiples . -- Gerald Carr.

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Nauclea gambir Hunter
  2. Ourouparia gambir (Hunter) Baill.
  3. Uncaria gambir var. latifolia S. Moore
  4. Uruparia gambir (Hunter) Kuntze

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003

Place of publication : Fl. ind. 2:126. 1824

Name verified on 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Uncaria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 86 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

U. acida · U. acida var. acida · U. acida var. papuana · U. africana · U. africana angolensis · U. africana subsp. angolensis · U. africana subsp. lacus-victoriae · U. attenuata · U. barbata · U. bernaysii · U. borneensis · U. burchellii · U. callophylla · U. calophylla · U. canescens · U. celebica · U. clavisepala · U. cordata · U. cordata f. insignis · U. cordata f. leiantha · U. cordata f. sundaica · U. cordata forma insignis · U. cordata forma leiantha · U. cordata forma sundaica · U. cordata var. cordata · U. cordata var. ferruginea · U. donisii · U. dosedlae · U. elliptica · U. florida · U. elliptica · U. gambir (Pale Catechu) · U. glabrescens · U. grandidieri · U. guianensis · U. hirsuta · U. homomalla · U. kunstleri · U. laevifolia · U. laevigata · U. lancifolia · U. lanosa · U. lanosa f. glabrescens · U. lanosa f. gynogumna · U. lanosa f. philippinensis · U. lanosa f. setiloba · U. lanosa f. sumatrana · U. lanosa forma glabrescens · U. lanosa forma gynogumna · U. lanosa forma philippinensis · U. lanosa forma setiloba · U. lanosa forma sumatrana · U. lanosa var. appendiculata · U. lanosa var. ferrea · U. lanosa var. glabrata · U. lanosa var. korrensis · U. lanosa var. lanosa · U. lanosa var. toppingii · U. longiflora · U. longiflora var. longiflora · U. longiflora var. pteropoda · U. macrophylla · U. nervoca · U. nervosa · U. oligoneura · U. orientalis · U. paucinervis · U. peltata · U. perrottetii · U. philippinensis · U. procumbens · U. rhynchophylla · U. rostrata · U. roxburghiana · U. scandens · U. schlenckerae · U. sessilifructus · U. setiloba · U. sinensis · U. sterrophylla · U. talbotii · U. thwaitesii · U. tomentosa · U. velutina · U. wallichii · U. yunnanensis

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Last Revised: 7/2/2009