Description
Root-climber.
Branchlets drying brown to blackish.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves distichous;
stipules 0.3-0.6 cm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous, caducous.
Stamens 2.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
Taxonomy
This species shows affinities to F. distichoidea, from which it clearly differs in the shortly mucronate acumen of the lamina (which is minutely retuse in F. distichoidea) and the smaller figs with shorter peduncles and basal bracts.
Citation
Corner 1962: p. 392. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19: t. 5
Corner 1962: p. 392. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19: t. 5
Corner 1965: p. 392. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 57
