Ficus gul
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Description
Tree up to 25 m tall.
internal hairs abundant to sparse.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-0.9 cm long, sparsely (to rather densely) white appressed- puberulous to brown strigillose to subglabrous, caducous.
Distribution
Admiralty Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Buru present, Ceram present, Eastern present, Flores present, From Borneo to the Solomon Islands present, Halmahera present, Key Islands present, New Britain present, Northern present, Palawan present, Talaud present, Tanimbar Islands present
From Borneo to the Solomon Islands; in Malesia: Borneo (northern and eastern), Philippines (except Palawan?), Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores), Moluccas (Talaud Islands, Halmahera, Buru, Ceram, Tanimbar Islands, Key Islands), New Guinea (incl. Admiralty Islands and New Britain).
Notes
2The indumentum on the leafy twigs, the petiole, the lower surface of the lamina, and the fig receptacle varies from dark brown hirtellous to subhirsute to whitish hispidulous; some collections only have the latter type of indumentum. The hairs on the figs are soft (whitish subvillous) in some collections from eastern New Guinea.
3Several collections from eastern New Guinea (and the Solomon Islands) have relatively large fig receptacles, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, whereas in most collections the receptacles are 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry.
4The epidermis of the petioles is usually persistent, but it is slightly to clearly flaking off in several collections, in particular from eastern New Guinea, including the material described as F. griseifolia.
6The species is usually found at altitudes below 1500 m, but in Papua New Guinea (Milne Bay Prov.) it has been collected at altitudes up to c. 2000 in montane forest.
5In the Solomon Islands, the tepals and pedicels are shortly hairy at the apex, a feature leading to recognition of a distinct variety, var. solomonensis.
1The species is quite variable as with regard to the shape of the lamina, the length, colour and rigidity of the indumentum, and the dimensions of the fig receptacles. The figs are born axillary and in clusters on the lesser branches, but may occur down to the trunk in New Guinea (and the Solomon Islands).
Citation
Corner 1961: p. 87. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 18: f. 3
King 1888: p. 85. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 108
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 56
Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 280
Koord. 1898: Minah.: 607
Elmer 1939 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 3485
Corner 1960 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 452
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 207
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 265
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 65
Miq. 1967: p. 91. – In: Philos. Trans.: f. 24
Miq. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 64
Lauterb. & K. Schum. 1967: p. 91. – In: Philos. Trans.: t. 24
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 264
Elmer 1906 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 54
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 63
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 63
Elmer 1911 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 1255
Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 95
Elmer 1914 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 2404
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 206
Elmer 1907 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 250
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 227