Mallotus (plant)

Mallotus
Kamala Tree (M. philippensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Acalyphoideae
Tribe:	Acalypheae
Subtribe:	Rottlerinae
Genus:	Mallotus Lour.
Synonyms
Aconceveibum Miq. Axenfeldia Baill. Coelodiscus Baill. Echinocroton F. Muell. Echinus Lour. Lasipana Raf. Plagianthera Rchb.f. & Zoll. Rottlera Willd. Rottlera Roxb. Stylanthus Rchb.f. & Zoll. Trewia L. Canschi Adans. Adisca Blume Adisa Steud. Boutonia Bojer Boutonia Bojer ex Baill. Coccoceras Miq. Neotrewia Pax & K.Hoffm. Octospermum Airy Shaw

Mallotus is a genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790. Two species (M. oppositifolius and M. subulatus) are found in tropical Africa and Madagascar. All the other species are found in East, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, and certain islands of the western Pacific.

Mallotus macrofossils have been recovered from the late Zanclean stage of Pliocene sites in Pocapaglia, Italy.

Mallotus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus. The Kamala tree (Mallotus philippensis) has hairs of whose seed capsule which are the source of a yellow dye (kamala dye) and (formerly) herbal remedy.

moved to other genera (Acalypha Aleurites Blumeodendron Chondrostylis Cleidion Croton Discocleidion Endospermum Hancea Lasiococca Macaranga Melanolepis Neoboutonia Plukenetia Ptychopyxis Rockinghamia Spathiostemon Sumbaviopsis )

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