Ficus funiculicaulis
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Description
Liana or hemi-epiphytic treelet up to 3 m tall.
Branchlets drying brown to greyish, fig-bearing branchlets to blackish.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves distichous;
stipules amplexicaul, 0.2-1 cm long, sparsely and minutely whitish appressed-puberulous to glabrous, caducous.
Morphology
1This species can be distinguished from the other small-leaved species of sect. Palaeomorphe found in New Guinea, F. armitii and F. gracillima, by flagelliflory and the presence of cystoliths on both sides of the lamina.
2According to the label data the figs are born on pendulous, rope-like, leafless, rooting branches extending as stolons in the litter. These branches depart from lianescent stems or stems of epiphytes attached to the stem of the host tree up to 1.5 m from the forest floor. From these branches occasional shoots with diminutive leaves develop.