[2][3] It is native to southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, Queensland, New Guinea, and various islands of the Pacific.

[1][4] It is the only member of the tribe Bischofieae.

They are dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants,[5] but may rarely be monoecious.

[6] The genus Bischofia was named after Gottleib Wilhelm T. G. Bischoff, 1797–1854, German botanist,[7] by Karl Blume.

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