Description from
Flora of China
Celtis amboinensis Willdenow, p.p.; C. virgata Roxburgh ex Wallich; Sponia amboinensis (Willdenow) Decaisne, p.p.; Sponia virgata Planchon; Trema amboinensis (Willdenow) Blume, p.p.; T. timorensis Blume; T. virgata (Roxburgh ex Wallich) Blume.
Branchlets greenish yellow, with appressed pubescence, glabrescent. Petiole with appressed pubescence; leaf blade ± membranous, drying light yellow-green or yellow-brown, abaxially glabrous except for scattered tightly appressed hairs on main veins, adaxially ± smooth to ± scabrous. Cymes as long as or shorter than petiole. Tepals glabrous or sparsely tomentose.
Sunny moist forests, scrub on sunny slopes, riversides, open places; 100-600 m. Fujian, Guangdong. Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, SE Hunan, S Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, S Zhejiang [Cambodia, India, In-donesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia, Pacific Islands].