Urceola (plant)

Urceola
	Urceola elastica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Apocynoideae
Tribe:	Apocyneae
Genus:	Urceola; Roxb. (1798), nom. cons.
Synonyms
	Aganonerion Pierre ex Spire (1906); Chavannesia A.DC. (1844); Chunechites Tsiang (1937); Cudicia Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn (1839); Dendrocharis Miq. (1857); Ecdysanthera Hook. & Arn. (1837); Hymenolophus Boerl. (1900); Parabarium Pierre ex Spire (1905); Parameria Benth. (1876); Parameriopsis Pichon (1948); Pezisicarpus Vernet (1904); Xylinabaria Pierre (1898); Xylinabariopsis Pit. (1933);

Urceola is a plant genus in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1798. It is native to China, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea.^[1]

Species

21 species are currently accepted:^[1]

Urceola brachysepala Hook.f. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines
Urceola densiflora (Oliv.) D.J.Middleton & Livsh. – Peninsula Malaysia (Penang) and Sumatra
Urceola elastica Roxb. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra
Urceola huaitingii (Chun & Tsiang) D.J.Middleton - Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
Urceola javanica (Blume) Boerl. - Borneo, Java, Maluku, Sumatra, Sulawesi, New Guinea
Urceola laevigata (Juss.) D.J.Middleton & Livsh. – China (southern Yunnan and southern Guangxi), Indochina, and Malesia
Urceola laevis (Elmer) Merr. - Palawan, Sabah, Sulawesi
Urceola lakhimpurensis (S.K.Srivast. & Mehrotra) Karthik. & Moorthy - Assam
Urceola latifolia (Pierre ex Spire) D.J.Middleton - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Urceola lucida (A.DC.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kurz - Myanmar, Thailand, W Malaysia, Sumatra
Urceola malayana D.J.Middleton - Cameron Highlands of W Malaysia
Urceola micrantha (Wall. ex G.Don) D.J.Middleton - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Tibet, Yunnan, Ryukyu Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, W Malaysia
Urceola minutiflora (Pierre) D.J.Middleton - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Urceola napeensis (Quint.) D.J.Middleton - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi
Urceola polymorpha (Pierre ex Spire) D.J.Middleton & Livsh. – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
Urceola polyneura (Hook.f.) D.J.Middleton & Livsh. – southern Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo
Urceola quintaretii (Pierre) D.J.Middleton - Laos, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi
Urceola rosea (Hook. & Arn.) D.J.Middleton - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, W Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
Urceola torulosa Hook.f. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
Urceola tournieri (Pierre) D.J.Middleton - Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Urceola xylinabariopsoides (Tsiang) D.J.Middleton - Hainan, Vietnam

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Urceola Roxb. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 July 2023.

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