Ficus depressa

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Ficus depressa

Description

Tree up to c. 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial, sometimes a climber. internal hairs absent. Leaves spirally arranged; stipules 1-2(-5) cm long, brownish puberulous to subsericeous or glabrous, caducous. Ovary partly reddish.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Thailand (Thailand present), Eastern present, Flores present, Luzon present, Pollilo Island present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present, Western present
Thailand; in Malesia: Sumatra (western), Malay Peninsula, Java (eastern), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor), Borneo, Philippines (Luzon, Pollilo Island).

Notes

2 There are no collections in L to verify the presence of the species in Bali, Sumba and Timor. 1The status of F. iwahigensis Elmer, Leafl. Philipp. Bot., 4 (1912) 1381 (p.p. foliorum, alt.p. F. forstenii Miq.); Merr., Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl. 2 (1923) 55; Sata, Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ. 32 (1944) 252 could not be verified. In Corner’s checklist the species name figures under ‘excluded species’.

Citation

Blume 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 62
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 286
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 226
Koord. 1916 – In: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 709
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 145
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 351
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 31
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 678
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 73
Blume 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 502
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 266, 286
Blume 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 246
Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 782
Corner 1960 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 380
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 182, 251
King 1887: p. 24. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 21
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 352
Blume 1825: Bijdr.: 450
Miq. 1861: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 440
Elmer 1937 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 3453
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 333
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 12