Table 1 Distribution of Broussonetia papyrifera in selected literatures

Kanehira (1936)

Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Pacific islands, China, Japan

Chûjô (1950)

Japan, Korea, China, Ryukyus, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Malay, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, SW Pacific islands, Europe, North America, Australia

Liu (1962)

Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Pacific islands, Japan, China

Li (1963)

Taiwan, Indo-Malaysia, China, Japan to the Pacific islands, Taiwan

Ohwi (1965)

Cultivated for making paper in Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu); Ryukyus, Formosa, China, Malaysia

Liu and Liao (1976)

China, Japan, the Pacific Islands, Malaysia, Thailand and India

Kitamura and Murata (1980)

Central and southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Malaysia, Pacific Islands

Yamazaki (1982)

S. China, Taiwan, Indochina, Thailand, Burma and Malaysia. Cultivated in Japan

Yamazaki (1989)

Central and southern China, Indochina, Malaysia

Liao (1991, 1996)

Taiwan, Southern China, Japan, the Pacific Islands, Indochina, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma and India

Liu et al. (1994), Lu et al. (2006)

Central and southern China, Taiwan, Japan, Malay, Pacific islands

Matthews (1996)

Japan, Korea, northern, central, and southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, India (Sikkim), islands Southeast Asia (excluding the Philippines and Borneo), Melanesia, and Polynesia islands

Florence (1997)

Native to China and Japan, widely cultivated in South East Asia, Malaysia and the Pacific

Shimabuku (1997)

Cultivated and escaped in Ryukyus. China, Taiwan, Indochina, Malaysia

Chang et al. (1998)

Distributed throughout China from the north to south, also in Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, wild or cultivated

Cao (2000)

China (Gansu, Shananxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Xizang), Taiwan

Barker (2002)

East Asia, in China, Japan, and Korea

Zhou and Gilbert (2003)

China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam; Pacific Islands

Berg et al. (2006)

India (Assam), China (incl. Taiwan), Indochina, Japan (introduced in the Ryukyu Islands), Myanmar, Thailand, Polynesia; in Malesia: introduced in Sumatra, Java, Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores, Timor, Alor, Wetar), Moluccas, New Guinea

Okamoto (2006)

Japan (cultivated and naturalized), Taiwan, S. China, Indochina, India, the Malesian region and Pacific islands

Whistler and Elevitch (2006)

Native to Japan and Taiwan; an ancient introduction to many Pacific islands as far east as Hawai‘i

Yun and Kim (2009)

Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

LaFrankie (2010)

China, Japan, naturally occurring as far south as Myanmar and Thailand, cultivated in Java, not found either in Malay or Borneo