Mallotus mollissimus Airy Shaw 1972
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810 - 193 Aveiro, Portugal
- 2. Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810 - 193 Aveiro, Portugal & CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810 - 193 Aveiro, Portugal
- 3. Science Department, Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
- 4. Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AB, United Kingdom
- 5. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology Leiden, University of Leiden, P. O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Description
Mallotus mollissimus (Geiseler) Airy Shaw (1972a: 297)
Mallotus ricinoides (Pers.) Müller Argoviensis (1865: 187); Fawcett (1885: 517).
Ecology: locally common in deciduous and evergreen forest, mostly in open, often heavily disturbed or burned places, gallery forest, mangrove edges, swamp forest, riparian vegetation, notophyll vineforest, on mountain slopes, open grasslands and along hill and road sides; on a large variety of soil types, like alluvial, basalt rocks, clay, coral limestone, loam, rocky, sandy, ultrabasic, and volcanic; elevation: sea level up to 1700 m (Sierra & van Welzen 2005).
Distribution: From Sumatra to East Australia and West Pacific (Solomon Islands) (Sierra & van Welzen 2005).
Specimens examined: Indonesia (Timor Barat): Malaka, [Seon, 9°24’58” S, 124°54’22” E], 27 June 1970, Kooy, C. W. 838 (L [L.2233762, L.2233763]); South Central Timor, [Soe, 9°51’39” S, 124°16’58” E], 20 January 1929, Walsh, M.E. 39 (BM [BM000820052, BM015176347]); 25 February 1929, Walsh, M.E. 140 (BM [BM013719596]); 15 May 1929, Walsh, M.E. 303 (BM); Walsh, M.E. 302 (BM [BM013719598]); Timor — Zippelius, A. s.n. (L [L.2233757]); 27 June 1970, Kooy, C. W. 216622 (L [L.2233763]); Timor Leste: Lautém, [Mahara, 8°27’54” S, 127°10’25” E], 2 October 2005, Cowie, I.D. & Xavier A. F. 10697 (L [L.2233796]); Manufahi, [Bubususu, 8°54’52” S, 125°47’00” E], 1882, Forbes, H. O. 3658 (BM [BM013719597]).
Red List Assessment: Least Concern.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BM , L
- Material sample ID
- BM000820052, BM015176347 , BM013719596 , BM013719597 , BM013719598
- Event date
- 1929-01-20 , 1929-02-25 , 1929-05-15 , 1970-06-27 , 2005-10-02
- Verbatim event date
- 1929-01-20 , 1929-02-25 , 1929-05-15 , 1970-06-27 , 2005-10-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Airy Shaw
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Genus
- Mallotus
- Species
- mollissimus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mallotus mollissimus Shaw, 1972 sec. Simão, Silveira, Wajer, Schuiteman & Welzen, 2024
References
- Airy Shaw, H. K. (1972 a) The Euphorbiaceae of Siam. Kew Bulletin 26 (2): 191 - 363. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 4117717
- Muller Argoviensis, J. (1865) Euphorbiaceae. Linnaea 34 (2): 1 - 752.
- Fawcett, W. (1885) Apetalae. In Forbes, H. O. (Ed.) A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. New York, Harper & brothers, 536 pp.
- Sierra, S. E. C., van Welzen, P. C. & Slik, J. W. F. (2005) Taxonomic Revision of Mallotus Section Philippinenses (former section Rottlera - Euphorbiaceae) in Malesia and Thailand. Blumea 50 (2): 221 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.3767 / 000651905 X 622978