Biology:Mallotus (plant)

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae


Mallotus
Mallotus philippensis - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-221.jpg
Kamala tree (M. philippensis)[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Acalypheae
Subtribe: Rottlerinae
Genus: Mallotus
Lour.
Synonyms[2]
  • Aconceveibum Miq.
  • Adisa Steud.
  • Adisca Blume
  • Axenfeldia Baill.
  • Boutonia Bojer
  • Boutonia Bojer ex Baill.
  • Canschi Adans.
  • Coccoceras Miq.
  • Coelodiscus Baill.
  • Echinocroton F.Muell.
  • Echinus Lour.
  • Lasipana Raf.
  • Neotrewia Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Octospermum Airy Shaw
  • Plagianthera Rchb.f. & Zoll.
  • Rottlera Willd.
  • Rottlera Roxb.
  • Stylanthus Rchb.f. & Zoll.
  • Trewia L. [lower-alpha 1]
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 . All the other species 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 hairs of whose seed capsule which are the source of a yellow dye (kamala dye) and (formerly) herbal remedy.

Species[2]

Formerly included[2]

moved to other genera (Acalypha Aleurites Blumeodendron Chondrostylis Cleidion Croton Discocleidion Endospermum Hancea Lasiococca Macaranga Melanolepis Neoboutonia Plukenetia Ptychopyxis Rockinghamia Spathiostemon Sumbaviopsis )


Notes

  1. ↑ One anagram of this genus name yields Wetriaria, another genus of Euphorbiaceae.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1897 illustration from Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06) (in de). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. A7. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. 
  4. ↑ Loureiro, João de. 1790. Flora Cochinchinensis 601, 635
  5. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 225 野桐属 ye tong shu Mallotus Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 2: 635. 1790.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Sierra, S.E.C. & Van Welzen, P.C. (2005). A taxonomic revision of Mallotus section Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia. Blumea 50: 249-274.
  8. ↑ 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. doi:10.1071/BT12202. 
  9. ↑ 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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