Mallotus garrettii Airy Shaw

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Mallotus

Characteristics

Small trees 4-8 m tall. Branchlets and leaves glabrous. Stipules triangular, ca. 3 mm, deciduous; petiole slender, 2-9 cm; leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 7-15 × 3.5-8.5 cm, papery, abaxially glaucous, sparsely glandular-scaly, base rotund or narrowly cordate, with 2 basal glands, margin entire or repand, apex acuminate; basal veins 3, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs. Male inflorescences terminal or axillary, unbranched, 5-12 cm; bracts ovate, ca. 3 mm. Male flowers 3-5-fascicled; pedicel 1-3 mm; calyx lobes 3, ovate, ca. 2 mm, pilose; stamens 30-40. Female inflorescences 11-13 cm, pilose. Capsule 3-locular, coccus subglobose, ca. 8 mm in diam., sparsely glandular-scaly and shortly softly spiny; persistent style ca. 4 mm, connate at middle, plumose. Seeds globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., brownish marbled. Fl. Jun-Oct, fr. Oct-Dec.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 6.5 - 8.5
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Environment

Light -
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Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Mallotus garrettii world distribution map, present in China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:351558-1
WFO ID wfo-0000234543
COL ID 3XPWR
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Mallotus garrettii