Mallotus moritzianus Műll.Arg.

Shrubs to small trees up to ca. 10 m tall and 13 cm dbh, reproductive from 1 m tall and 1 cm dbh. Twigs solid, hairy (short simple, tufted and stellate hairs). Stipules narrowly triangular, usually early-caducous, erect, 2.5-8 mm long by 0.5-1.5 mm wide. Petioles densely hairy, petioles of opposite leave pairs differing in length, large petioles up to ca. 9 cm long, petiole of opposite small leaf up to ca. 4.5 cm long. Leaves opposite, one of each pair smaller but similar in shape; large leaves elliptic, 13-31 cm long by 6-18 cm wide, length/width-ratio 1.6-2.6; secondary veins 4-8, not ending in the margin (looping to fading); leaf base obtuse, sometimes cordate; leaf margin without glands; leaf upper surface hairy, especially on veins, with 2-many nectary glands on leaf lamina near leaf margin, usually along the whole leaf margin, sometimes also covering the central parts of the lamina; leaf lower surface hairy, sometimes sandpaper-like, numerously gland dotted, rarely with hair tuft domatia in secondary vein axils. Staminate inflorescences not branched; flowers clustered per bracteole; bracteoles with entire margin. Pistillate inflorescences not branched; fruits 15-18 mm wide, 3-locular, with many short to long, curly spines.

Ecology: Collected up to ca. 1000 m altitude. A relatively shade tolerant species found on slightly disturbed sites in the forest understorey.

Distribution: Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Borneo and New Guinea. In Borneo collected in Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, West-, Central- and East-Kalimantan.