Ficus melinocarpa

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Description

Tree up to 35 m tall, with buttresses up to 2 m high or without, deciduous. Branchlets often drying blackish. internal hairs abundant. Leaves distichous; stipules amplexicaul, 0.5-1(-1.2) cm long, (minutely) puberulous or only ciliolate, caducous.

Distribution

Ambon present, Aru Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Ceram present, Eastern present, From Malesia to the Solomon Islands present, Halmahera present, Leyte present, Luzon present, Minahassa present, Mindoro present, New Britain present, Northern present, Obi Island present, Sula Islands present

From Malesia to the Solomon Islands; in Malesia: Sumatra, Java, Borneo (northern and eastern), Philippines (Luzon, Leyte, Mindoro), Celebes (Minahassa), Moluccas (Mototai, Halmahera, Obi Islands, Sula Islands, Ceram, Ambon, Aru Islands), New Guinea (New Britain).

Taxonomy

2This species resembles F. stellaris, in particular the montane subspecies, from which it differs by the fully amplexicaul stipules. 3It also resembles the lowland species, F. myiopotamica, which is glabrous, except on the margin of the stipules and on the impressed base of the midrib above. 1This species shows afﬁnities to F. trachypison. It is different in the fully amplexicaul stipules, the absence of additional waxy glands, the inconspicuous indumentum (in most collections), and the (almost) flat smaller veins on the lamina beneath. Some, apparently (sub)juvenile specimens are more conspicuously hairy. This applies in particular to two collections from New Guinea (Morobe Province) with dense (subvelutinous) indumentum on the venation of the lamina beneath and on the petioles; according to label data the foliage is hispid in the lower part of the tree and glabrous in the top.

Citation

Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 68

Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 287

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 302

Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 360

Blume 1861: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 427

Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 361

Backer 1948 – In: Blumea: 308

Blume 1967: p. 95. – In: Philos. Trans.: t. 26

Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 53

Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 30

Blume 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 273, 292

King 1888: p. 94. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 119

Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 159

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 300

Koord. 1918 – In: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 755

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 330

Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 93