Ficus montana
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Description
Laxly-branched shrub up to 2 m tall, sometimes creeping, or treelet.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.2-1 cm long, sparsely minutely appressed-puberulous, often slightly striate, caducous (or subpersistent at apices of leafy twigs).
Fruits (endocarp body) 1-1.5 mm long, subtetrahedral to lens-shaped, tuberculate, weakly keeled.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Lower Myanmar present
India (?),Lower Myanmar, Thailand; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo.
Notes
3The features of the fruits (in fact endocarp bodies) indicate that this species is related to F. exasperata, and through that species with the African and Madagascan species.
2The diversity in Borneo is such that F. subsidens may prove to be part of the Bornean diversity.
1The leaves can be linear-lanceolate with up to c. 16 pairs of lateral veins, the basal pair up to 1/20 the length of the lamina, and the tertiary venation (sub)reticulate (e.g., Chai S.36002 from Sarawak and Murata et al. 174 from E Kalimantan). More pronouncedly deviating, largely due to the small (3-12 by 0.5-2 cm) lamina with an (sub)acute apex and short (0.5-1 cm long) petioles is Reksodihardjo 133 from E Kalimantan (near Samarinda). Moreover, the styles are hairy in this collection and the endocarp bodies (fruits) less pronouncedly tuberculate. Some other collections from Borneo also have relatively short petioles, slightly variable in length on the same twig.
4It is remarkable that this species, which according to label data is at least locally abundant, is so poorly represented in herbarium collections and from scattered localities.
Citation
Burm.f. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 271, 291
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 395
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 232
Koord. 1924 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: t. 764, 765
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 185
Corner 1960 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 453
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 151
Wight 1843 – In: Ic.: t. 646
Desf. 1829: Cat. Hort. Paris,, ed. 3: 412
Corner 1960 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 453
Kunth 1847 – In: Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot.: 255
Roxb. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 299
Roxb. 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 519
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 151
King 1888: p. 83. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 104
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 27
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 229
Burm.f. 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 290
Blume 1825: Bijdr.: 471
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 64
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 427
Ochse & Bakh. 1931: Veg. Dutch East Indies: 503, 504
Mabb. 2004 – In: Taxon: 191
Blume 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 299
Blume 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 271, 291
Blume 1864: Choix Pl. Buitenzorg: t. 10
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 234
Wight 1843 – In: Ic.: t. 635
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 339
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 302
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 340
King 1888 – In: Sp. Ficus: 184
Roxb. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 271
Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins.: 1012
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 64
Roxb. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 297
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 225
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 291
King 1888: p. 75. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 93
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 298
Roxb. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 291
King 1888: p. 77. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 95