Ficus subulata

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Description

Shrub or tree up to 15 m tall (with drooping branches), often lianescent and/or hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying brown to greyish. internal hairs absent. Leaves distichous; stipules amplexicaul, (0.5-)1-2(-2.7) cm long, glabrous (or whitish puberulous), caducous (or subpersistent), dark brown when dry;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Singapore present), Banka present, From Sikkim to S China to Thailand, Malesia and the Solomon Islands present, New Britain present, Riouw Arch present, Timor present

From Sikkim to S China to Thailand, Malesia and the Solomon Islands; in Malesia: throughout the region to New Britain, but not recorded from Johore, Singapore, Riouw Arch., Banka, and Timor.

Taxonomy

2This species is closely related to F. gracillima, from which it differs in various leaf characters, as the venation, apex, and length of the petiole and of the stipules, the larger ﬁg receptacles, the common occurrence of ramiflory, and the non-indurate tepals of the flowers. Ficus subulata is essentially a lowland species, but F. gracillima is often found at higher altitudes, in particular in eastern New Guinea. 3Part of the type-collection of Ficus ellipsoidea Miq., , belongs here. 1The species appears to be quite diverse in its habit, on the labels indicated as shrubs or treelets (apparently terrestrial), epiphytes, stranglers, or straggling or clinging climbers. The plants can produce long whip-like twigs with long internodes (often) with roots on the nodes. With these long branches individuals can establish subepiphytic satellite plants or terrestrial individuals can change into climbers.

Citation

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