Mallotus tiliifolius (Blume) Műll.Arg.

Shrub to small tree up to ca. 8 m tall and 10 cm dbh, reproductive from 2 m tall and 2 cm dbh. Twigs solid, densely hairy (short, creamish-coloured, simple, tufted and stellate hairs). Stipules triangular, early-caducous, erect, ca. 0.5 mm long by 0.5 mm wide. Petioles densely hairy, petioles of opposite leaves differing in length, short petioles up to ca. 3 cm long, long petioles up to ca. 9 cm long. Leaves opposite, opposite leaves differing in size only, ovate, rarely slightly peltate, 11-20 cm long by 7.5-17.5 cm wide, length/width-ratio 1.11-1.47; secondary veins 6-9, ending in the margin or not (looping); leaf base cordate to broadly rounded, peltate margin length (when present) 0.1-0.2 cm; leaf margin with glands, sometimes slightly serrate; leaf upper surface glabrous to hairy, with 2-8 basal nectary glands on basal veins and lamina, apical nectary glands present to absent; leaf lower surface hairy, glaucous, densely gland dotted. Staminate inflorescences not branched; flowers clustered per bracteole; bracteoles with entire margin. Pistillate inflorescences not branched; fruits 10-14 mm wide, 3-locular, with few short spines.

Ecology: Collected up to ca. 10 m altitude. An early successional species, restricted to sea shores with sandy beaches.

Distribution: From southern China to the western Pacific and Australia. In Borneo collected in Sarawak and Sabah.