Ficus barba-jovis

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Ficus barba-jovis

Description

Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown. internal hairs rather sparse or absent. Leaves distichous; stipules 0.4-0.8 cm long, minutely appressed-puberulous or also subpilose, subpersistent. Stamen 1.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present), Mt Kinabalu present
Borneo (Sabah: Mt Kinabalu).

Notes

2 The species shows affinities to F. cataupi. 1This species is remarkable in the variation of the lower surface of the lamina on which the areoles are (partly) not distinct, (partly) brownish tessellate, or partly foveolate, representing the successive stages of the differentiation of the lower surface of the lamina. The leaves are born on slender rooting branches. Whether the material under this name represent a subbathyphyll-state is not clear.

Citation

Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 251
Corner 1965: p. 102. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 62