Mallotus apelta Müll.Arg.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Mallotus

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees 1-6 m tall. Branchlets whitish and brownish stellate-tomentulose when young. Stipules subulate, 2.5-4 mm, deciduous; petiole 5-15 cm, whitish tomentulose; leaf blade broadly ovate, 5-60 × 4-20 cm, papery, abaxially whitish tomentulose and scattered orange glandular-scaly, adaxially glabrescent or sparsely stellate-pilosulose, base truncate or contracted cuneate, rarely slightly cordate, with 2 basal glands, margin repand-denticulate, apex acute or acuminate; basal veins 3. Male inflorescences terminal, branched or unbranched, 15-50 cm, whitish tomentulose; bracts triangular, ca. 2.5 mm. Male flowers 1-5-fascicled; pedicel ca. 3 mm; calyx lobes 4, ovate, ca. 3 mm, tomentulose; stamens 50-75. Female inflorescences unbranched; peduncle 5-10 cm; bracts linear ca. 3 mm; infructescence 15-60 cm, densely cylindric, whitish tomentose. Female flowers: pedicel 1.5-2 mm; calyx lobes 3-5, ovate to triangular, 2.5-3 mm, tomentose; ovary 3(or 4)-locular, with stellate-tomentulose hairs; style ca. 3 mm, plumose. Capsule subglobose, densely softly spiny, spines filiform, 3-8 mm, whitish stellate-pubescent. Seeds ovoid, ca. 4 mm, often black, verruculose. Fl. May-Sep, fr. Aug-Nov.
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A small tree. It grows 1-6 m tall. The leaves are 5-60 cm long by 4-20 cm wide. There is a white coating underneath,
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 6.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. In southern China it grows in mountain valleys between 100-1,000 m above sea level. In XTBG Yunnan.
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Usage

Uses medicinal poison
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Therapeutic use Abscess (unspecified), Alexiteric (unspecified), Anus (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Hepatomegaly (unspecified), Hernia (unspecified), Itch (unspecified), Leucorrhea (unspecified), Otitis (unspecified), Piscicide (unspecified), Prolapse (unspecified), Rash (unspecified), Splenomegaly (unspecified), Hepatitis (unspecified), Tonsillitis (unspecified), Uteritis (unspecified)
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Images

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Mallotus apelta unspecified picture

Distribution

Mallotus apelta world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Mallotus apelta threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:351482-1
WFO ID wfo-0000234436
COL ID 6R588
BDTFX ID -
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Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Mallotus apelta Mallotus castanopsis Mallotus paxii Ricinus apelta Mallotus tenuifolius Rottlera cantoniensis Rottlera chinensis Croton chinensis Mallotus apelta var. chinensis Mallotus apelta var. kwangsiensis Mallotus apelta var. tenuifolius Mallotus paxii var. castanopsis Mallotus tenuifolius var. castanopsis Mallotus tenuifolius var. paxii Mallotus apelta var. apelta