Ficus stipata

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Ficus stipata

Description

Procumbent shrub up to c. 0.5 m tall, or tree (?). Branchlets drying pale brown to greyish. internal hairs absent. Leaves distichous; stipules semi-amplexicaul to amplexicaul, 1.3-1.6 cm long, whitish appressed-puberulous, striate, subpersistent.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Sumatera (Sumatera present), Padang present, Rengat present
Sumatra (near Padang and near Rengat); at low altitudes.

Taxonomy

This species shows similarities to F. hemsleyana, from which it clearly differs in the bilaterally auriculate base of the lamina.

Citation

Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 78