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Mallotus paniculatus (Lamk) Müll. Arg.

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Mallotus in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Linnaea 34: 189 (1865).

Croton paniculatus Lamk (1786), Mallotus cochinchinensis Lour. (1790).

Turn-in-the-wind (En). Indonesia: calik angin (Sundanese), tutup awu, tutup kancil (Javanese). Malaysia: balek angin (Peninsular), mallotus balabakan (Sabah). Philippines: anaplan (Bukidnon). Laos: ?khi? thao?, lat koua, luat ma?. Thailand: saet (peninsular), sate-ton (north-eastern), soi daao (south-eastern). Vietnam: b[uj]c b[aj]c, ba b[es]t nam b[ooj], bai b[as]i.

India, Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, southern China, Taiwan, Thailand, throughout Malesia except the Lesser Sunda Islands, and north-eastern Australia.

In Peninsular Malaysia, a decoction of the plant is used for cleansing wounds, a poultice in combination with other plants to treat headache, and a lotion externally to treat fever in children. A decoction of the root is administered after childbirth. The wood is used for matches and boxes, and as fuelwood. The bark is occasionally used for binding purposes.

A shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall; leaves arranged spirally, rhombic or ovate, often tricuspidate or 3-lobed, whitish-felted below, usually not peltate; fruit subglobose, whitish-felted, with scattered processes. Mallotus paniculatus is common in evergreen forest and in scrub vegetation, up to 1500 m altitude.

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Ch.B. Lugt

Lugt, Ch.B., 2003. Mallotus paniculatus (Lamk) Müll. Arg.. In: Lemmens, R.H.M.J. and Bunyapraphatsara, N. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(3): Medicinal and poisonous plants 3. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea