Trema orientale · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRosales
- FamilyCannabaceae
Common Name: urajiro-enoki
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 583
- With media
- 687
- Family
- Cannabaceae
- Collections
- US, NY
- Recorded in
- United States, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Malawi, Japan, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Trema orientale
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Trema orientale
- taxon common name
- 山黄麻根
- short name
- T. orientale
- taxon author citation
- (L.) Blume
- taxon range
- Gabon
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4
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Encyclopedic overview
Trema orientale (sometimes Trema orientalis) is a species of flowering tree in the hemp family, Cannabaceae. It is known by many common names, including charcoal-tree, Indian charcoal-tree, pigeon wood, Oriental trema, and in Hawaii, where it has become naturalized, gunpowder tree, or nalita. It has a near universal distribution in tropical and warm temperate parts of the Old World, with a range extending from South Africa, through the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and southern China to Southeast Asia and Australia.
Distribution
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