Ficus macrorrhyncha
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Description
Tree up to 10 m tall or shrub.
Branchlets often drying red-brown.
internal hairs abundant, brownish, relatively long.
Leaves distichous;
stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-1 cm long, (appressed-)puberulous, caducous (or subpersistent).
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Bird’s Head Peninsula present, New Britain present, New Ireland present
New Guinea (mainly eastern, incl. New Britain and New Ireland; also Bird’s Head Peninsula).
Taxonomy
2Two forms can be distinguished: one with patent hairs and the other with appressed hairs in the leafy twigs, the petiole and the lamina beneath. The indumentum may be rather sparse in the latter form and the leafy twigs tend to be thinner.
1This species has the prominent venation of the lamina beneath in common with the presumably related F. quercetorum and F. trachypison. It differs in the exfoliating epidermis of the petiole, the smooth upper surface of the lamina, and both basal lateral veins running close to the margin of the lamina.