Macaranga denticulata (Blume) Müll. Arg.

Small trees 3-15 m tall. Branchlets ferruginous or yellowish brown tomentose when young; branches glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Stipules lanceolate, 7-8 mm, tomentose, caducous; petiole 5-20 cm; leaf blade deltoid-ovate or broadly ovate, 12-30 × 11-28 cm, thinly leathery or thickly papery, abaxially pubescent, densely glandular scaly, adaxially glabrescent, base obtuse or subtruncate, narrowly peltate, rarely subcordate, with 2 or 4 glands, margin repand or subentire, apex cuspidate-acuminate, palmately 7-9-veined. Male inflorescences branched, 5-10 cm, tomentose; bracts suboblong, 2-3 mm, margin 2-4-glandular, or triangular, ca. 1 mm. Male flowers 3-7 per bract; pedicel ca. 0.5 mm; calyx 2- or 3-lobed, ca. 1 mm; stamens 9-16(-21). Female inflorescence branched, 4-8 cm, tomentose; bracts oblong or ovate, leaflike, 5-7 mm, margin 2-6-glandular, or triangular. Female flower solitary; calyx cup-shaped, 2-lobed, ca. 1.5 mm; ovary 2(or 3)-locular, puberulent; styles 2(or 3), ca. 1 mm. Fruiting pedicel 3-5 mm; capsule 2-lobed, 5-6 mm in diam., densely glandular-scaly; persistent calyx 3- or 4-lobed. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. May-Oct.

Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim), Burma, Andaman Is., Thailand, S. China, Malesia.

Guangxi, S Guizhou, Hainan, SE Xizang (Mêdog), S and SE Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam].

200-1400 m

Low hills, slopes, forests, secondary forests; below 100-1300 m.

Mappa denticulata Blume, Bijdr. 625. 1826; Macaranga chatiniana (Baillon) Müller Argoviensis; M. denticulata var. zollingeri Müller Argoviensis; M. gummiflua (Miquel) Müller Argoviensis; M. henricorum Hemsley; M. perakensis J. D. Hooker; Mappa chatiniana Baillon ["chantiniana"]; M. gum miflua Miquel; M. truncata Müller Argoviensis; M. wallichii Baillon; Rottlera glauca Hasskarl.

Macaranga denticulata is a species of Asian small trees in the family Euphorbiaceae and tribe Acalypheae, found especially in secondary tropical forests. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life and the recorded distribution includes: India, southern China, Indo-China and western Malesia.