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