Yellow Ball Flower

Shrubs or small trees, 3-7 m tall. Branchlets and inflorescences grayish ochraceous tomentulose. Leaves opposite, each pair slightly unequal; stipules obsolete; petiole 3-12 cm; leaf blade triangular, triangular-ovate, or rhombic-ovate, 5-20 × 4.5-20 cm, chartaceous, adaxially sparsely stellate-puberulent, abaxially tomentulose, sparsely reddish glandular-scaly, base rounded to cordate, with 2-4 maculate glands, margin entire or repand, apex acute or acuminate; basal veins 3. Male inflorescences terminal, unbranched, 6-15 cm; bracts subulate, 1.5-2 mm. Male flowers 3-9-fascicled; pedicel 2-3 mm; calyx lobes 3-5, oblong or lanceolate, 2-3 mm; stamens 80-100. Female inflorescences 3-15 cm. Female flowers: sepals 3-5, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm, tomentulose; ovary tomentose and softly spiny; styles 3, 4-5 mm, connate at middle, plumose. Fruiting pedicel ca. 5 mm; capsule 3-locular, ca. 12 mm in diam., tomentulose and sparsely shortly softly spiny. Seeds subglobose, ca. 5 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Aug-Oct.

Hainan, Taiwan [Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand; N Australia, Pacific islands (Fiji)].

Coastal regions, thickets; below 100 m.

Rottlera tiliifolia Blume, Bijdr. 607. 1826 ["tiliaefolia"]; Mallotus playfairii Hemsley.

Mallotus tiliifolius là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Đại kích. Loài này được (Blume) Müll.Arg. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1865.

椴叶野桐（学名：Mallotus tiliifolius）为大戟科野桐属下的一个种。