Mallotus decipiens Müll. Arg.

Shrubs or small trees, 2-6 m tall. Branchlets densely dull yellow stellate-pubescent. Leaves opposite, each pair unequal; stipules oblong, 3-4 mm, leathery, pubescent; petiole 5-10 mm, tomentose; leaf blade obovate or oblong-ovate, 5-16 × 3-8 cm, thinly leathery, adaxially glabrescent, abaxially pubescent and yellowish granular-glandular, base cuneate, with 2 glands, margin repand-denticulate, apex acute or acuminate; basal veins 3. Male inflorescences terminal or axillary, unbranched, 4-6 cm, tomentulose; bracts lanceolate, small. Male flowers 3-5-fascicled; calyx lobes 3, ovate, ca. 2 mm, puberulent; stamens 30-40. Female raceme 5-11 cm, tomentulose; bracts lanceolate, ca. 2 mm. Female flowers: sepals 4 or 5, oblong, ca. 3 mm, pubescent; ovary tomentose; styles 3, ca. 3 mm, base connate, ca. 1 mm, plumose. Capsule 3-locular, 8-9 mm in diam., puberulent and sparsely shortly softly spiny. Seeds globose, ca. 3.5 mm in diam. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jun.

SW Yunnan [Myanmar, Thailand].

Mountain valleys, forests; 400-800 m.