Trema cannabina (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Trema cannabina Loureiro

Family: Ulmaceae

Synonyms

• Trema virgata (Planchon) Blume.

Vernacular names

• Smooth trema (En)
• Indonesia: delung (South Sumatra), anggrung (Java), bintanong (Borneo)
• Malaysia: mengkirai lalab, mengkirai padi
• Philippines: anagdung (Bisaya), anabiyon (Bicol), inangdon (Mangyan)
• Vietnam: hu day, trần mai cong.

Distribution

South-East Asia, Australia, Melanesia, West Polynesia and Micronesia.

Uses

The Malay name suggests that the plant is edible but there is no confirmation of this.

Observations

• Shrub or small, much branched tree, up to 6 m tall.
• Leaves ovate-caudate to broadly ovate-acute or elliptical-lanceolate, 3-13 cm × 1.5-5.5 cm, glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent beneath.
• Branchlets initially densely silvery-hairy.
• Fruit a very small orange to red drupe.

Pioneer in newly opened-up habitats up to 1200 m altitude.

Selected sources

7, 20, 91.