Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Muell.Arg.
Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Muell.Arg.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Monkey face tree, Kamala tree
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Indo-Malesia and Australia
Use: Medicinal.
Description:
Dioecious trees, to 12 m high; branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence tawny or rusty pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate or acute, base acute or round, margin entire or sparsely serrate, glabrous above, greyish pubescent to fulvous tomentose with minute red glands beneath; 3-ribbed from base. Flowers unisexual, brick red, in rusty puberulous, terminal spicate panicles. Fruit a capsule, 7-8 mm across, globose, 3-lobed, loculicidally 3 valved, densely red-glandular, pubescent.