Urceola (plant)


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.

Species

21 species are currently accepted:
  1. Urceola brachysepala Hook.f. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines
  2. Urceola densiflora – Peninsula Malaysia and Sumatra
  3. Urceola elastica Roxb. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra
  4. Urceola huaitingii D.J.Middleton - Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
  5. Urceola javanica Boerl. - Borneo, Java, Maluku, Sumatra, Sulawesi, New Guinea
  6. Urceola laevigata – China, Indochina, and Malesia
  7. Urceola laevis Merr. - Palawan, Sabah, Sulawesi
  8. Urceola lakhimpurensis Karthik. & Moorthy - Assam
  9. Urceola latifolia D.J.Middleton - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  10. Urceola lucida Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kurz - Myanmar, Thailand, W Malaysia, Sumatra
  11. Urceola malayana D.J.Middleton - Cameron Highlands of W Malaysia
  12. Urceola micrantha 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
  13. Urceola minutiflora D.J.Middleton - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  14. Urceola napeensis D.J.Middleton - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi
  15. Urceola polymorpha – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
  16. Urceola polyneura – southern Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo
  17. Urceola quintaretii D.J.Middleton - Laos, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi
  18. Urceola rosea D.J.Middleton - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, W Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
  19. Urceola torulosa Hook.f. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
  20. Urceola tournieri D.J.Middleton - Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  21. Urceola xylinabariopsoides D.J.Middleton - Hainan, Vietnam