Mallotus (plant)
Genus of flowering plants in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the plant. For the fish genus, see Mallotus (fish).
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]
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Mallotus | |
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Kamala tree (M. philippensis)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
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] | |
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