Mallotus mollissimus (Geiseler) Airy Shaw

Shrub or small tree to 10 m high; evergreen. Stems ± rounded towards apices, with dense, clear to ginger stellate hairs, indumentum persistent. Leaves alternate, ± peltate; lamina broadly-ovate, orbicular-ovate or ovate, 45–300 mm long, 22–240 mm wide; base cordate, rounded or truncate; margins weakly sinuate or weakly dentate with 10–12 small teeth to 1 mm long; tip short to long acuminate; venation palmiveined, comprising 4 veins from the lamina base, 5–8 lateral veins per side of midrib and reticulate interlateral veins; upper surface without granular inclusions; lower surface silver-white, interlateral venation well developed, with dense velutinous, clear to ginger stellate hairs and dense yellow sessile glands, indumentum persistent. Stamens 66–78. Fruit subglobose to globose, 5–8 mm long, 7–8 mm diam., with dense, clear stellate hairs and long echinate processes to 4 mm long that coalesce between adjacent fruits creating a woolly mass, sessile glands absent.

Grows as a pioneer along creek banks in open forest or the margins of notophyll and mesophyll vineforests on volcanic soils.