Herbarium JCB

Trema orientalis (L.) Blume

Family : ULMACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Cannabaceae
Species : Trema orientalis
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Trema orientalis (L.) Blume
Common name : Pigeon Wood, Oriental Nettle
Vernacular name : Kiruhale (Kan.)
Collection Nos : CJS 10430, KFP 5873, KFP 11306, KFP 12963
Key identification features : A small, fast growing, short-lived evergreen tree; young branchlets and stipules pubescent. Leaves are simple, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, obliquely sub-cordate at base, serrate, scabrid above, pubescent beneath. Flowers in axillary clusters, about 1 cm. dia. and greenish. Fruit is a black drupe. Bark is greyish or bluish-green.
Habit : Tree
Native : India, Nepal, Polynesia, Australia, Tropical Africa
Comments : Frequent in forest clearings. Wood yields good charcoal used in the manufacture of gunpowder.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara