Ficus semicordata
Description
Tree up to 15 m tall, with wide-spreading branches.
internal hairs abundant to very sparse, white or brownish.
Leaves distichous;
stipules 1-2(-3.5) cm long, white appressed-puberulous, on the keel to brown strigose or subhirtellous, caducous.
Fruits whitish.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Myanmar present, S China present
From India to Myanmar, S China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malesia; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula.
Morphology
Young plants (in cultivation at Store Milde, May 2004) showed asymmetric leaves on the plagiotropic branches, but the leaves on the orthotropic branches are symmetric.
Citation
Wight 1843 – In: Ic.: t. 648
Corner 1960 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 449
Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 461
King 1888: p. 101. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 126
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 156
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 282, 296
Steud. 1841: p. 635. – In: Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2: ‘cunea’
Roxb. 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 523
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 397
Corner 1933: p. 21. – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: t. 8, 9
Hand.-Mazz. 1929 – In: Symb. Sin.: 93
Puri 1947 – In: J. Ind. Bot. Soc.: 131
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 62
Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins.: 1006
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 341
Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 814
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 681