Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Streptophyta

Class: Equisetopsida

Subclass: Magnoliidae

Order: Rosales

Family: Cannabaceae

Genus: Trema

Species: Trema orientale

Description: It is a fast growing shade tree with foliage. Simple leaves, stipulate, alternate. Leaf margins are serrated. Flowers are greenish, small and in dense bunches and uisexual fowers. Anthers are distilled, conical, compressed, ovary is conical, stigma is slender. Fruits are small, fleshy and round.

Uses: Used to treat diabetes, respiratory diseases and malaria.