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Rusty Kamala
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Rusty Kamala
ative Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: Rusty Kamala • Assamese: লাৰুবন্ধা laru-bandha, মৰলীয়া moroliya • Bengali: মারলেয়া marleya, পেঠালি pethali • Bodo (or Boro): lai-dolorJaati • Kachari: laima-guphu • Kannada: ಕುಕ್ಕುಟ kukkuta, ತಂಬಿಟ್ಟು thambittu, ಉಪ್ಪಾಲ uppaala • Karbi: lutung-har-arong • Khasi: dieng-paklia, dieng-tha-rong • Kokborok (or Tripuri): khurchup • Konkani: चौपुडी शेंदरी chaupudi shendri • Kuki: napol-thing • Malayalam: ആടുകണ്ണി aadukanni, വട്ടക്കുമ്പിൾ vattakkumpil • Marathi: चौपुडी शेंदरी chaupudi shendri • Naga: teng-num-ching • Nepali: जोगी मालता jogi-malata, कस्रे मालता kasre-malata • Tamil: முள்ளு பொலவு mullu polavu Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Mallotus tetracoccus    Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Mallotus ferrugineus, Mallotus albus var. occidentalis
Rusty Kamala is a tree up to 12 m tall. Bark is brown, warty, blaze cream. Young branchlets are flat. Leaves are simple, alternate, spirally arranged, stalk 3-12.5 cm long, swollen at both ends. Leaf blade is 8-25 x 6.5-20 cm, broadly ovate to circular, tip pointed to long-pointed. The stalk is attached to the leaf in the middle (peltate). Leaves are usually entire or trilobed when young, leathery, densely white velvety beneath, 3-5 nerved at base. Flowers are unisexual, dioecious, in axillary or terminal panicles, velvety. Capsule is spherical, covered with soft wooly spines, seeds 6. Rusty Kamala is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar. In India it is found in the Western Ghats through out.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale, Gurumurthi Hegde Photographed in Chikmagalur, Karnataka.
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