Croton mutabilis P.I.Forst.

Shrub to 4 m high; indumentum uncoloured or silver. Branchlets glabrous or with scattered stellate trichomes, glabrescent. Stipules linear, 1.8–2 mm long, entire. Leaf lamina elliptic, obovate or ±orbicular, 13–170 mm long, 7–90 mm wide; base cuneate, rounded or truncate; margins sinuate or denticulate with 9–17 teeth; tip acute to rounded; venation penninerved with 8–10 lateral veins per side of midrib and tertiary reticulate veins; lower surface pale green, lateral and tertiary veins weakly developed, glabrous or with sparse/scattered stellate trichomes; extrafloral nectaries 2 at lamina base, ellipsoid, sessile, visible below only. Male flowers: pedicels 3–4 mm long; sepals lanceolate-ovate, 2–2.5 mm long; petals oblanceolate, 2–3 mm long; stamens 10–12. Styles 3, bifid once. Fruit trilobate, depressed-globose, 4–5 mm long, 6–7 mm diam., with sparse sessile stellate trichomes.

Grows on the margins of deciduous vine thickets and semi-deciduous notophyll vineforests on alluvium, red laterite or heavy black clay soils.