| Triangular-Leaf Mallotus |
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| Original date | 12/26/19 3:20 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
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| Focal length | 4.36mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 1.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | HMD Global |
| Camera model | Nokia 8.1 |
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Botanical name: Mallotus repandus Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Croton rhombifolius, Mallotus scandens, Rottlera scandens
Synonyms: Croton rhombifolius, Mallotus scandens, Rottlera scandens
Triangular-Leaf Mallotus is a large climbing or
subclimbing shrubs with thorns on the trunk; branchlets
star-shaped-velvet-hairy. Leaves 4.5-10 x 4-8.7 cm, ovate or
ovate-triangular, base somewhat heart-shaped or flat, margins entire or
somewhat wavy-toothed, tip blunt, pointed or tapering, becoming
hairless above, densely star-shaped-velvet-hairy and closely covered
with small glands beneath, basally 3-ribbed; leaf-stalk 2.5-6 cm long.
Male flowers are borne in panicled racemes at branch-ends; tepals 3-5,
about 3 mm long, nearly round or lanceshaped, concave, woolly,
glandular within; stamens many. Female flowers are green, in simple
racemes; tepals linear, falling off; ovary 2-lobed, woolly, 2-celled;
stigma plumose. Capsule are 1-1.2 cm across, 2-valved, densely
rusty-woolly and glandular outside. Seeds are nearly spherical, black.
Triangular-Leaf Mallotus is found in India, SE Asia to Australia.
Flowering: November-January.
| Identification credit: Manoranjan Paramanik, Bubai Bera | Photographed in Raghunathpur, Purulia, West Bengal. |
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