Ficus glaberrima

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Ficus glaberrima

Description

Tree up to 30 (or more) m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. internal hairs absent. Leaves spirally arranged; stipules 1-1.5(-1.7) cm long, (sub)glabrous, caducous. Ovary partly red.

Distribution

Andaman Islands present, Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Myanmar present, Sumbawa present, southern China present
India, Myanmar (incl. Andaman Islands),southern China (incl. Hainan), Indochina, Thailand; in Malesia: Sumatra (northern), Java, Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumbawa).

Notes

1
Variety bracteata Corner () is included in F. lawesii, which is reinstated as a species; see also p. 664.
3According to Corner’s description, the basal bracts form a 3-4 mm long calyptrate structure before they are shed. 2The absence in the Malay Peninsula is remarkable.

Citation

Blume 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 506
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 33
King 1887: p. 37. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 43k
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 17
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 263, 286
Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 443
Blume 1952 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 33: 225
F. Heide 1927: p. 115. – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg: t. 7, 8
Rehder 1936 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 17: 73
Rehder 1936 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 17: 73
Koord. 1916 – In: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 710, 711
Griff. 1854 – In: Ic. Pl. Asiat.: t. 559
Merr. 1937 – In: Lingn. Sci. J.: 79
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 381
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 75
Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 770