Ficus superba
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Description
Tree up to 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic, deciduous.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules (0.5-)0.8-1.5 (on opening shoots up to 7) cm long, densely white woolly-tomentose to -subvillous, caducous or subpersistent at the apices of the twigs and forming ovoid terminal buds.
Ovary red-brown.
Distribution
Anambas and Natuna Island present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Thailand (Thailand present), Ceram present, Flores present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present
Indochina, Thailand; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor), Borneo (Anambas and Natuna Islands), Celebes, Moluccas (Ceram).
Taxonomy
Two varieties recognized by Corner (1960) are excluded from the species, var. henneana (Miq.) Corner reinstated as an Australian species and var. japonica included in F. subpisocarpa Gagn. Ficus geniculata Kurz var. abnormalis Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 2 (1877) 447, was also included (in var. japonica). It differs from F. subpisocarpa in the densely hairy stipules and from both F. subpisocarpa and F. superba in the persistent basal bracts. The variety recognized by Kurz is probably indeed a form of F. geniculata.
Citation
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 334
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 32
Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 773
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 7
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 10: 287
Miq. 1940: Wayside Trees: 679
King 1887: p. 59. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 72
Koord. 1916 – In: Atlas: t. 744
Backer 1948 – In: Blumea: 308
K. Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl. Ned.-Indië: 576
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 133