Trema orientale (L.) Blume

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Rosales > Cannabaceae > Trema > T. orientalis

Description: Dioecious trees, to 15 m high, bark 0.6 cm, thin, greyish or bluish-green, rough, lenticellate; blaze creamy-yellow, streaked; branchlets scabrous to adpressed pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, cauducous; petiole 5-10 mm, slender, tomentose, grooved above; lamina 7.5-15 x 2.5-6 cm, ovate-lanceolate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, base obliquely cordate, apex acuminate, margin serrulate, scabrid above, tomentose beneath, chartaceous, 3-5-ribbed from base, prominent, lateral nerves 3-4 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, 3-4 mm across, greenish, in axillary fascicles or cymes; male flowers usually sessile; tepals 4 or 5, equal, 2 mm long, curved, ciliate; stamens 5; pistillode oblong; female flowers : tepals unequal, ciliate; ovary superior, sessile, 1-celled, ovate; style bifid, villous; stigma plumose. Fruit a drupe, 4 x 3 mm, globose, black; stylar tip persistent; seed globose.

Flowering and fruiting: September-December

Uses: Bark yields fibre. Charcoal prepared from the wood

Cultivation: Cultivated, Ornamental, Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org