Heptapleurum ellipticum(Blume) Seem.

Climbing Umbrella Treebungaruau

WFO wfo-0000981530 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Heptapleurum ellipticum, photographed by koala0090
fig. a koala0090, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-09 / obs. 182153365
Heptapleurum ellipticum, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. b Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047155
Heptapleurum ellipticum, photographed by koala0090
fig. c koala0090, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182153379
Heptapleurum ellipticum, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. d Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047173
Heptapleurum ellipticum, photographed by 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)
fig. e 胡正恆(Jackson Hu), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 212215435
Heptapleurum ellipticum, photographed by koala0090
fig. f koala0090, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182153389
Heptapleurum ellipticum, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. g Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60047166

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Heptapleurum ellipticum is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas I., East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Queensland, Caroline Is. China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest HimalayaQueensland Andaman Is.Christmas I.Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Heptapleurum ellipticum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Christmas I. XMS
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Taiwan TAI
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 67 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 12.4 °C 19.0 °C 24.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.7 °C 28.7 °C 30.0 °C
Annual rainfall 1,836 mm 2,314 mm 3,866 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 68 mm 150 mm 555 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 67 research-grade observations of Heptapleurum ellipticum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 39 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Actinophyllum belangeri (Marchal) R.C.Schneid.
  • Aralia moorei F.Muell.
  • Hedera terebinthinacea Wall.
  • Hedera venosa Wall.
  • Hedera verticillata Span.
  • Heptapleurum micranthum (Miq.) Seem.
  • Heptapleurum natale Ridl.
  • Heptapleurum verticillatum (Span.) Seem.
  • Paratropia assamicum K.Koch
  • Paratropia crassa Blanco
  • Paratropia elliptica (Blume) Miq.
  • Paratropia elliptica var. micrantha (Miq.) Miq.
  • Paratropia elliptica var. ovata Miq.
  • Paratropia elliptica var. riparia Miq.
  • Paratropia elliptica var. tetraphylla Miq.
  • Paratropia elliptica var. verticillata (Span.) Miq.
  • Paratropia macrantha Miq.
  • Paratropia micrantha Miq.
  • Paratropia pubigera Brongn. ex Planch.
  • Paratropia verticillata (Span.) K.Koch
  • Polyscias odorata Blanco
  • Schefflera agusanensis Elmer
  • Schefflera belangeri (Marchal) Harms
  • Schefflera elliptica (Blume) Harms

and 15 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.