Ficus vrieseana
Description
Tree up to 15 m tall.
internal hairs abundant, white to brown.
Leaves (sub)distichous to spirally arranged (or subopposite);
stipules 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm long, brown puberulous to hirtellous to substrigose, caducous (or subpersistent).
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Mentawei Islands present
Malesia: Sumatra (incl. Mentawei Islands), Java.
Morphology
1M. Shah 1610 (from Malaya, Penang) referred by Corner to F. vrieseana var. chamaecarpa, has not been included in the description. It differs from the collections from Java and Sumatra in the pronouncedly asymmetric base of the lamina and the dense dark brown, apparently persistent hairs on the figs. It resembles some Malayan specimens referred to F. uncinata, but the figs lack the lateral bracts. Additional material is needed to verify the identity of these Malayan collections.
2 According to Corner (ms.) this species may have cystoliths also on the upper surface of the lamina, but they have not been detected in the material available for the present treatment.
Citation
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 28
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 87
Koord. 1918 – In: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 760-763
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 198
King 1888: p. 100. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 124
Corner 1933: p. 22. – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: f. 10, 11
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 161