Mallotus blumeanus (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Mallotus blumeanus Müll. Arg.

Protologue: Linnaea 34: 195 (1865).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: bungbulang peucang, calik angin (Sundanese), katimuru (Javanese).

Distribution

Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores).

Uses

In Indonesia the leaves are used during childbirth.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, almost completely glabrous.
• Leaves decussately opposite, ovate-oblong, not peltate.
• Fruit ellipsoid, verrucose.

M. blumeanus occurs in primary forest up to 1000 m altitude.

Selected sources

22, 23, 62, 334, 883. medicinals

Main genus page

• Mallotus (PROSEA Medicinal plants)
• Mallotus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

• Ch.B. Lugt