[4] The distribution of the species is slightly disjunctional, it grows in Taiwan, and then in a contiguous (clumped) area from Yunnan to Southeast Asia and northeastern India.

[1] Countries and regions where the plant grows are: Taiwan; Zhōngguó/China (Yunnan); Vietnam; Laos; Cambodia; Thailand; Myanmar; Bangladesh; and India (Assam, Eastern Himalaya).

[3] The Renikhayong para Village Community Forest, Bandarban District, southeastern Bangladesh, is quite diverse, in 40 acres, there are 81 species of tree, in 35 families.

[3] The Chakma people living in the Hill Tracts region of southeastern Bangladesh, use the leaves in their indigenous medicine to treat skin infections (leaf paste applied twice daily).

[6] A prolific botanist, and very active academic, Elmer Drew Merrill first described the species in 1915, in his article "On the application of the generic name Nauclea of Linnaeus", published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (Baltimore, MD).