Loureiro, J. de (1790), Flora Cochinchinensis Edn. 1, 2: 639 [primary reference]

• Type: Restiaria cordata Lour.

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 81 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 368 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Uncaria Schreb. nom. cons.

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