Ficus densechini

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Ficus densechini

Description

Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; internal hairs absent. Leaves distichous; stipules 1.5-5 cm long, minutely puberulous to glabrous, caducous. Stamen 1.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present, Sarawak present), Baram District present, E Kalimantan present, Mt Batu Mayo present, Mt Kinabalu present
Borneo (Sabah: Mt Kinabalu; Sarawak (Baram District); E Kalimantan: Mt Batu Mayo).

Morphology

1This species can be distinguished from the other cauliflorous Bornean species with leaves usually longer than 10 cm and lacking hairs on the veins of the lamina, and from F. grandiflora, by the long petioles, longer than 3 cm. 2 Most collections have been made at Mt Kinabalu. The single collection from E Kalimantan () differs in the oblong to subovate lamina and the very large fig receptacle, up to 12 cm diam. with a wall up to 2.5 cm thick. The collection from E Kalimantan might represent a distinct not yet described species.

Citation

Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 240
Corner 1965: p. 130. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 60