Mallotus paniculatus Müll.Arg.

Shrub or small tree to 6 m high; evergreen. Stems ± rounded, with dense, clear to ginger to silver stellate hairs when young, often appearing almost peltate, becoming sparse with age. Leaves alternate, not peltate; lamina broadly ovate, rhombic-ovate, 40–190 mm long, 22–120 mm wide; base cuneate to truncate; margins generally entire, weakly sinuate, or very weakly dentate with poorly defined teeth; tip short or long acuminate; venation palmiveined, 3–5 lateral veins from the lamina base, an additional 6–8 lateral veins further up the midrib and with reticulate interlateral veins; upper surface without granular inclusions; lower surface silver-white, interlateral venation well developed, with dense, ginger to silver stellate hairs, yellow sessile glands generally absent, indumentum persistent. Stamens 44–56. Fruit subglobose, 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm diam., with sparse, ginger to silver, stellate hairs and echinate processes 3–4 mm long, sessile glands absent.

Deciduous and evergreen forest, mostly in open, often very disturbed or burned places; ravines and dry sites like plateaus, ridges and slopes, in thickets, and along rivers and roadsides; on a large variety of soils from sea level to 1,800 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.