Ficus carrii

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Ficus carrii

Description

Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. internal hairs sparse. Leaves in lax spirals to distichous; stipules 1-1.5 cm long, ± densely and minutely appressed-puberulous, subpersistent or caducous. Stamen 1. Fruits hardly compressed and not keeled.

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

This species can be distinguished from two other cauliflorous Bornean species with leaves usually longer than 10 cm, F. densechini and F. grandiflora, by the presence of hairs on the main veins of the lamina beneath. It differs from F. sarawakensis, which has laminas of similar size and indumentum on the main veins of the lamina beneath, in the broader lamina and the densely hairy fig receptacle.

Citation

Corner 1965: p. 123. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 62
Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 252