Description
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Small trees 5-15 m tall. Branchlets gray stellate-tomentulose. Petiole 2-4 cm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 8-16 × 3-5 cm, thinly leathery, adaxially glabrescent, abaxially tomentulose, base cuneate, with 2 basal glands, margin subentire, apex acuminate. Flowers 1-3-fascicled; flower buds ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm, tomentulose. Infructescence 5-14 cm; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm. Fruiting pedicel 2-3.5 mm; persistent sepals 5, triangular, ca. 1.5 mm; capsule subglobose, 3-locular, ca. 12 mm in diam., densely golden yellow glandular-scaly. Seeds subglobose, ca. 6 mm in diam., black. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Dec.
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Distribution
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W Hainan, S Yunnan [Thailand].
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Habitat
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Mountain valleys or limestone ranges, forests; 1200-1400 m.
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Synonym
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Mallotus philippensis (Lamarck) Müller Argoviensis var. pallidus Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 26: 300. 1972; M. philippensis var. menglianensis C. Y. Wu.
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