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Genus of flowering plants in the spurge family
"Trevia" redirects here. For the place in the United Kingdom, see
Trevia, Cornwall .
Mallotus japonicus
Mallotus macrostachyus
Mallotus mollissimus
Mallotus paniculatus
Mallotus is a genus of the spurge family
Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790.
[4] Two
species (
M. oppositifolius and
M. subulatus ) are found in
tropical Africa and
Madagascar , while all others are found in East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, and certain islands of the western Pacific.
[2]
[5]
[6]
[7] The genus has about 150 species of
dioecious trees or shrubs.
[8]
Fossil record
Mallotus macrofossils have been recovered from the late
Zanclean stage of
Pliocene sites in
Pocapaglia ,
Italy .
[9]
Uses
Mallotus species are used as food plants by the
larvae of some
Lepidoptera species including
Endoclita malabaricus . The
Kamala tree (Mallotus philippensis ) has seed capsules which are the source of a yellow
dye (Kamala dye) and were formerly a
herbal remedy .
[10]
Species
[2]
Mallotus actinoneurus – S Thailand, W Malaysia
Mallotus anomalus –
Hainan
Mallotus apelta – S China
Mallotus atrovirens – SW India
Mallotus attenuatus – Papua New Guinea
Mallotus aureopunctatus – India
Mallotus barbatus – India, Indochina, S China, Malaysia, W Indonesia
Mallotus beddomei – SW India
Mallotus blumeanus – Java, Sumatra
Mallotus brachythyrsus – Sarawak, Kalimantan
Mallotus brevipetiolatus – S Thailand, W Malaysia
Mallotus calocarpus – S Thailand
Mallotus cambodianus – Cambodia
Mallotus canii – Vietnam
Mallotus caudatus – Borneo
Mallotus cauliflorus –
Luzon
Mallotus chromocarpus – Papua New Guinea
Mallotus chuyenii – Vietnam
Mallotus claoxyloides - E Australia, Papua New Guinea
Mallotus concinnus –
Kelantan
Mallotus confusus – Philippines
Mallotus connatus – Philippines, Borneo
Mallotus coudercii – Indochina
Mallotus cumingii (Trevia ambigua ) – Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi
Mallotus darbyshirei – Papua New Guinea
Mallotus decipiens – Bangladesh, Indochina, W Malaysia
Mallotus didymochryseus – New Guinea
Mallotus discolor – E Australia
Mallotus dispar – Indochina, W Malaysia, W Indonesia
Mallotus dispersus – N Australia
Mallotus distans – S India, Sri Lanka
Mallotus dunnii –
Fujian
Mallotus eberhardtii – Vietnam
Mallotus eriocarpus – Sri Lanka, W Malaysia
Mallotus eximius – Borneo, W Malaysia
Mallotus ficifolius – Queensland
Mallotus floribundus – SE Asia, Papuasia
Mallotus furetianus – Hainan, China
Mallotus fuscescens – Sri Lanka
Mallotus garrettii – N Laos, N Thailand
Mallotus glabriusculus – Indochina
Mallotus glomerulatus – NE Thailand
Mallotus grossedentatus –
Hainan
Mallotus hanheoensis – Vietnam
Mallotus havilandii – Sarawak
Mallotus hispidospinosus – Thailand, Myanmar
Mallotus hymenophyllus – S Thailand
Mallotus illudens – S China
Mallotus insularum –
Maluku ,
Lesser Sunda Islands
Mallotus intercedens – India
Mallotus japonicus – Japan, Korea, China, Ryukyu Islands
Mallotus khasianus –
Assam , Indochina, S China
Mallotus kongkandae –
Yunnan , N Thailand
Mallotus korthalsii – Philippines, Malaysia, W Indonesia
Mallotus kweichowensis –
Guizhou
Mallotus lackeyi – Borneo, Philippines
Mallotus lanceolatus – S China, Indochina
Mallotus lancifolius –
Andaman & Nicobar Is , Malaysia, W Indonesia
Mallotus lappaceus – Myanmar
Mallotus lauterbachianus – New Guinea
Mallotus leptostachyus – S Myanmar, S Thailand
Mallotus leucocalyx – SE Asia
Mallotus leucocarpus –
Assam , Myanmar
Mallotus leucodermis – S Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
Mallotus lianus –
Guangdong ,
Fujian ,
Zhejiang
Mallotus longinervis – Sarawak
Mallotus longipes – Myanmar
Mallotus macrostachyus – S Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
Mallotus macularis – New Guinea
Mallotus megadontus – Queensland
Mallotus metcalfianus – N Thailand, Vietnam,
Guangxi
Mallotus microcarpus – S China
Mallotus millietii –
Guizhou
Mallotus minimifructus – Borneo, Sulawesi, Philippines
Mallotus miquelianus – Thailand, Borneo, Malaysia, Philippines, Sumatra
Mallotus mirus – Thailand
Mallotus mollissimus – Indonesia, Philippines, Papuasia, Queensland
Mallotus monanthos –
Pahang
Mallotus montanus – S Thailand, W Malaysia
Mallotus muticus – Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
Mallotus myanmaricus – Myanmar
Mallotus nanus – Laos, Cambodia
Mallotus neocavaleriei –
Guizhou
Mallotus nepalensis – Nepal, Yunnan, Myanmar, Assam, Bhutan
Mallotus nesophilus – N Australia
Mallotus nudiflorus (Trevia nudiflora , Trevia integerrima ) – Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, S China
Mallotus oppositifolius – Madagascar, tropical Africa
Mallotus oreophilus –
Yunnan ,
Sikkim
Mallotus pachypodus – Myanmar
Mallotus pallidus – S Thailand
Mallotus paniculatus – Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, S China, Queensland, Papuasia
Mallotus peltatus – Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, S China, Papuasia
Mallotus philippensis – Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, S China, Papuasia, Ryukyu Islands
Mallotus pierrei – Thailand, Vietnam
Mallotus pleiogynus – New Guinea
Mallotus plicatus – Indochina
Mallotus poilanei – Vietnam
Mallotus polyadenos – New Guinea, Queensland
Mallotus polycarpus – W India
Mallotus puber – Solomon Islands
Mallotus repandus – Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, S China, Papuasia, New Caledonia
Mallotus resinosus – Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland
Mallotus rhamnifolius – S India, Sri Lanka
Mallotus roxburghianus – E Himalayas
Mallotus rufidulus – W Indonesia
Mallotus sathavensis – Vietnam
Mallotus sphaerocarpus – Sumatra
Mallotus spinifructus – Kalimantan
Mallotus stewardii – E China
Mallotus subcuneatus – S Thailand, W Malaysia
Mallotus subjaponicus –
Anhui
Mallotus subulatus – W + C Africa
Mallotus sumatranus – Sumatra, Borneo
Mallotus surculosus –
Cape York Peninsula
Mallotus taoyuanensis –
Hunan
Mallotus tetracoccus – Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Myanmar,
Yunnan
Mallotus thorelii – Indochina
Mallotus thunbergianus – Sri Lanka
Mallotus tiliifolius –
Hainan , SE Asia, Papuasia, Micronesia, Taiwan
Mallotus trinervius – New Guinea
Mallotus ustulatus – Cambodia
Mallotus wrayi – Sumatra, Borneo, W Malaysia
Mallotus yunnanensis –
Yunnan
Formerly included
[2]
Some species have been moved to other genera, namely: Acalypha Aleurites Blumeodendron Chondrostylis Cleidion Croton Discocleidion Endospermum
Hancea Lasiococca Macaranga Melanolepis Neoboutonia Plukenetia Ptychopyxis Rockinghamia Spathiostemon Sumbaviopsis.
Notes
References
^ 1897 illustration from Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
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^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes – Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. A7.
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Loureiro, João de. 1790. Flora Cochinchinensis 601, 635
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Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 225 野桐属 ye tong shu Mallotus Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 2: 635. 1790.
^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1–4: 1–1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
^ Sierra, S.E.C. & Van Welzen, P.C. (2005). A taxonomic revision of Mallotus section Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia. Blumea 50: 249–274.
^ Yamasaki, Eri; Sakai, Shoko (2013). "Wind and insect pollination (Ambophily) of Mallotus spp. (Euphorbiaceae) in tropical and temperate forests". Australian Journal of Botany . 61 : 60.
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^ Messian to Zanclean vegetation and climate of Northern and Central Italy by Adele Bertini & Edoardo Martinetto, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 47 (2), 2008, 105–121. Modena, 11 lugio 2008.
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