 Native to South and Southeast Asia, China and Australasia, the distribution area extends from Pakistan via India and southern China to Taiwan, the Philippines, the Ryūkyū Islands and the Mariana Islands, to the south via Malaysia and Indonesia to New Guinea and parts of Australia.It is now naturalized in other tropical areas, and as well as southern United States.The orange diamond grows particularly in thickets and mountain forests (in China it rises to altitudes of 1300 meters).