Description
Shrub or treelet up to 6 m tall, often liansecent and/or hemi-epiphytic.
Branchlets drying brown.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves distichous;
stipules amplexicaul or semi-amplexicaul to lateral, 0.3-1 cm long, subsubulate, often the upper part or entirely, (sparsely) whitish puberulous to subhispidulous, caducous or subpersistent.
Distribution
Central present, Eastern present
New Guinea (central and eastern) .
Taxonomy
The indurate tepals could indicate that this species is rather closely related to F. gracillima.
Citation
King 1889 – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 229B
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 361
Summerh. 1929 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 10: 146
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 201
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 201
Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 92
