Mallotus floribundus (Blume) Műll.Arg.

Shrubs to small trees up to ca. 17 m tall and 29 cm dbh, reproductive from 4 m tall and 3 cm dbh. Twigs solid, glabrous. Stipules ovate, usually early-caducous, erect, 1-2.5 mm long by 0.5-1.5 mm wide. Petioles glabrous, up to ca. 16 cm long. Leaves alternate, peltate, ovate to orbicular, 12-19 cm long by 8.5-15 cm wide, length/width-ratio 1.04-1.90; secondary veins 4-6, ending in the margin; leaf base rounded, peltate margin length 1-2 cm; leaf margin with glands; leaf upper surface glabrous, with 2-6 basal nectary glands on basal veins, some distance from petiole insertion, sometimes with apical nectary glands; leaf lower surface glabrous, often slightly glaucous, numerously gland dotted, with conspicuous hairy domatia at petiole insertion, sometimes also less conspicuous hair domatia higher along the midrib. Staminate inflorescences not branched; flowers clustered per bracteole; bracteoles with entire margin. Pistillate inflorescences not branched; fruits 13-18 mm wide, 3-locular, with few long, curly spines.

Ecology: Collected up to ca. 500 m altitude. A relatively shade tolerant successional species, mainly found along rivers and streams in primary and secondary forests.

Distribution: From Thailand and Indochina to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. In Borneo it has been collected in Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, West- and East-Kalimantan.