Trema orientalis

Trema orientalis (L.) Blume (1856) . 

Zich et al. (2020) Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system (RFK ed. 8), 
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Distribution and Ecology

Occurs in Cape York Peninsula, the wet tropics bio-region NE. Qld, central eastern Qld and southwards as far as coastal central Queensland near Bundaberg.
Altitudinal range from sea level to 900 m.
Grows in lowland and upland rain forest on a variety of sites.
This species is a characteristic feature of rain forest regrowth.
Also occurs in Africa, Asia, Malesia, the Solomon Islands and the Pacific islands.

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Botanical Scholarly Literature References:  

• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025):
Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
Trema orientalis (L.) Blume (1856): → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/103377/api/apni-format  .
Viewed: 2025 September 5th .

• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024) [2014]
Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria .
Trema orientalis 

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Viewed: 2025 September 5th . 

• Zich Frank A, Bernie P M Hyland, Trevor Whiffin, Raelee A Kerrigan (2020) 
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 8 ('RFK 8'): 
Trema orientalis (L.) Blume fact sheet: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Trema_orientalis.htm 
Main site web page: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/
Viewed: 2025 September 5th .

• Fechner N A , Queensland Herbarium (2025) 
Census of the Queensland Flora and Fungi 2024.
Trema orientalis (L.) Blume – "Nature Conservation Act (NCA) Status : Least Concern" . 
Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government.
→ http://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/census-of-the-queensland-flora-and-fungi-2024
Dataset Accessed: 2025 July 19th . 

• Cooper, Wendy and William T (2004 June) 
Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest.
—pages: 546–547 .
Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia: Nokomis Editions. ISBN 9780958174213 .

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