Taxon:
Uncaria tomentosa (Willd.) DC.
Summary
Place of publication:
Prodr. 4:349. 1830
Verified:
11/06/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Andersson, L. A provisional checklist of neotropical Rubiaceae. Scripta Botanica 1. 1992
- Boggan, J. et al. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. 1997
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993
- Croat, T. B. Flora of Barro Colorado Island. 1978
- Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
- Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. Flora of Ecuador. 1973-
- Jones, K. 1995. Cat's claw: healing vine of Peru.
- Lasser, T., ed. Flora de Venezuela. 1964-
- León, B. 1995. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
- Ridsdale, C. E. 1978. A revision of Mitragyna and Uncaria (Rubiaceae). Blumea 24:96. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea
Common names
English
cat's-claw – Spanish
uña de gato –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Trinidad and Tobago | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Costa Rica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Guatemala | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Nicaragua | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Panama | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Guyana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Suriname | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
Native
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
Trinidad and Tobago
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MESOAMERICA:
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru