Ficus fulva

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Description

Tree up to 20 m tall. internal hairs abundant (or few), yellowish. Leaves spirally arranged; stipules 0.8-3.2 cm long, ﬁnely whitish to yellowish (to pale brown) sericeous or yellowish subsericeous to subhirtellous to appressed-puberulous, caducous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Flores present, Lower Thailand present, Nicobar Islands present, Sumbawa present, Timor present

Nicobar Islands, Lower Thailand; Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor), Borneo, Celebes.

Morphology

1The species is quite variable. Two more or less intergrading forms can be distinguished:

a. With the indumentum on various parts yellowish to pale brown, the lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)obovate, and the stipules mostly 1.2-2.5(-3.2) cm long, with appressed thin whitish or pale yellow hairs. — Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas.
b. With the indumentum usually darker to bright yellow or brownish, the lamina broader, to suborbicular and then often rounded to truncate towards the short acumen, and the stipules (even on relatively thick leafy twigs) shorter, 0.8-1.2 cm long, with yellow hairs, often not fully or only partly appressed. — Sumatra, Java, Celebes.

2The latter form comprises some material (with relatively large ellipsoid brownish subvelutinous receptacles) which has been referred to F. hirta var. roxburghii by Corner, as well as to the type of F. suborbicularis. 3The fruits are mostly tuberculate and distinctly keeled, but sometimes smooth and slightly keeled (as in the Lesser Sunda Islands).

Uses

The bark is used for string; the latex contains wax.

Citation

Blume 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 531

Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 348

Hassk. 1844: Cat. Hort. Bog.: 77

Blume 1970: 357, 373. – In: Philos. Trans.: t. 3, 16

Blume 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 269, 280

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 302

Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 457

Blume 1861: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 427

Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 117

Blume 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 296

Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 222

de Vriese 1847 – In: Descr. & Fig. Pl. Nouv. & Rar.: t. 1, 3

Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 269, 290

Miq. 1851: Pl. Jungh.: 54

Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 223

Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 403

Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 46

Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 10: 286

Kuntze 1891: p. 626. – In: Rev. Gen. Pl.: incl. var. contracta Kuntze

Blume 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 276

Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins.: 1009

Kunth & C.D. Bouché 1847 – In: Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol.: 22

Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 30

M.F. Barrett 1951 – In: Am. Midl. Nat.: 134

Ridl. 1934 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 348

Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 682

Blume 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 270, 291

King 1888: p. 148. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 187

Boerl. 1900 – In: Handl.: 369

K. Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl. Ned.-Indië: 571

Boerl. 1900 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenzorg: 28

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 296

Koord. 1898: Minah.: 600

Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 252

Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 347