Parameria
''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 # ''Urceola brachysepala'' Hook.f. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines # '' Urceola elastica'' Roxb. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra # '' Urceola huaitingii'' (Chun & Tsiang) Mabb. - Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan # ''Urceola javanica'' (Blume) Boerl. - Borneo, Java, Maluku, Sumatra, Sulawesi, New Guinea # ''Urceola laevis'' (Elmer) Merr. - Palawan, Sabah, Sulawesi # ''Urceola lakhimpurensis'' (S.K.Srivast. & Mehrotra) Karthik. & Moorthy - Assam # ''Urceola latifolia'' (Pierre ex Spire) Mabb. - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam # ''Urceola lucida'' (A.DC.) Benth. ex Kurz - Myanmar, Thailand, W Malaysia, Sumatra # ''Urceola malayana'' Mabb. - Cameron Highlands of W Malaysia # ''Urceola micrantha'' (Wall. ex G.Don) Mabb. - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Tibet, Yunnan, Ryukyu ...
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Urceola Elastica
''Urceola'' may refer to: * ''Urceola'' (fungus), Quél. 1886, a genus of fungi in the order Helotiales * ''Urceola'' (plant), Roxb. 1799, a genus of plants in the family Apocynoideae See also * Urceolate This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary o ...

Urceola Micrantha
''Urceola micrantha'' is a plant species in the genus '' Urceola''. It is a shrub widespread across much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas. In Taïwan, it is used in folk medicine as an analgesic, antiphlogistic and spasmolytic agent.Proanthocyanidins – a final frontier in flavonoid research? Richard A. Dixon, De-Yu Xie and Shashi B. Sharma, New Phytologist (2005) 165: 9–28 The species contains proanthocyanidin B2, proanthocyanidin A1 and proanthocyanidin A2 Procyanidin A2 is an A type proanthocyanidin. It is found in avocado, chestnut, cranberry juice concentrate, lychee fruit pericarp, peanut The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monke .... References Apocyneae Flora of Asia Medicinal plants Plants described in 1837 {{Apocynaceae-stub ...
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Urceola Xylinabariopsoides
''Urceola'' may refer to: * ''Urceola'' (fungus), Quél. 1886, a genus of fungi in the order Helotiales * ''Urceola'' (plant), Roxb. 1799, a genus of plants in the family Apocynoideae See also * Urceolate This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary o ...

William Roxburgh
William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known as the founding father of Indian botany. He published numerous works on Indian botany, illustrated by careful drawings made by Indian artists and accompanied by taxonomic descriptions of many plant species. Apart from the numerous species that he named, many species were named in his honour by his collaborators. Early life He was born on 3 June 1751 on the Underwood estate near Craigie in Ayrshire and christened on 29 June 1751 at the nearby church at Symington. His father may have worked in the Underwood estate or he may have been the illegitimate son of a well-connected family. His early education was at Underwood parish school perhaps also with some time at Symington parish school, and he probably also had private tutoring in Latin, as demonstrated by his letters and some d ...
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Urceola Lucida
''Urceola'' may refer to: * ''Urceola'' (fungus), Quél. 1886, a genus of fungi in the order Helotiales * ''Urceola'' (plant), Roxb. 1799, a genus of plants in the family Apocynoideae See also * Urceolate This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary o ...