Ficus variegata
Description
Deciduous tree up to 40 m tall, becoming buttressed.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules 0.5-1.2(-2) cm long, glabrous (and then often partly ‘corky’ and flaking off) or yellowish appressed-puberulous, at least at the base and/or the apex, caducous.
Fruits smooth.
Distribution
Andaman Islands present, Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Thailand (Thailand present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Myanmar present, NE India present, Ryukyu Islands present, S China present, Solomon Islands present
From NE India to Myanmar, S China, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Indochina, S Andaman Islands, and to Thailand, Malesia, the Solomon Islands, and Australia (Queensland); in Malesia: throughout the region.
Morphology
2Material from the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Celebes, tend to have yellowish hairy stipules. The lamina base is often cuneate or may even be subattenuate in the northern part of the species range.
1The species is variable, as in the shape, the dimensions, and the venation of the leaves, or to a lesser degree in the indumentum. Some varieties have been recognized on the basis of this variation. Ficus viridicarpa, which was provisionally regarded as distinct (Corner 1933, 1965) as the ripe figs remained greenish at maturity in stead of turning pink or red, is included in F. variegata here. The form in which the figs remain greenish at full maturity is found in Lower Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and West Java.
3Sterile material of F. nodosa is difficult to distinguish from F. variegata. The former species has usually somewhat longer stipules (mostly 1.5-2.5 cm of which the whole outer surface is covered with whitish or sometimes yellowish hairs, whereas in the latter species the stipules are mostly 0.5-1.2 cm long and (usually) glabrous in the regions where they co-occur. In F. nodosa, small waxy glands are common on the nodes, such glands are absent in F. variegata.
4The inner surface of the receptacle has inconspicuous flower-bearing processes.
Citation
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 686: t. 205
Elmer 1907 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 260
Kaneh. 1917: Formos. Trees: 520
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 57
K. Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl. Ned.-Indië: 577
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 228
Elmer 1911 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 1270, 1324
King 1888: p. 172. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 217
Ochse & Bakh. 1931: Veg. Dutch East Indies: 505
Elmer 1908 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 549
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 366
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 83
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 320
Benth. 1913: Compr. Cat. Qld. Pl: 487: f. 487
Steenis 1948 – In: Blumea: 259
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 54
Corner 1933: p. 48. – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: t. 25, 26
Holttum 1940 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 11: 141
1845: 474
Merr. 1918: Sp. Blancoan.: 125
Koord. 1898: Minah.: 608
Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 102
Elmer 1937 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 3447
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 52
Blume 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 68
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 54
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 28, 32
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 320
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 160
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Elmer 1908 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 550
Koord. 1918 – In: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 779, 780
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 59, 87
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 83
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 371
G. Karst. & Schenck 1912 – In: Vegetationsbilder: t. 21
Blume 2000: p. 314. – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: t. 12
Simon 1914 – In: Jahrb. Syst. Wiss. Bot.: 92
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King 1888: p. 180. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 225
Schimper- v. Faber 1935 – In: Pfl. Geogr., ed. 3: 459
Backer 1948 – In: Blumea: 303
Blume 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 282, 294
King 1888: p. 169. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 212
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 31, 87
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 260, 285
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 365
Wight 1843 – In: Ic.: t. 639
Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 808
Blume 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 535
Elmer 1911 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 1270
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 83
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 321
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 263
Elmer 1937 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 3450
Elmer 1914 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 2395
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 314, 367
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 687
Blume 1864: Choix Pl. Buitenzorg: t. 13
Hayata 1919: p. 126. – In: Ic. Pl. Formos.: t. 51
Náves 1879 – In: Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed. 3, 3: 86
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 161
Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins.: 1015
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 335
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 325
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 320, 321
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 219
Corner 1933 – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: 42
F.M. Bailey 1902 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 1473
Elmer 1911 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 1324
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 296
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ.: 372
Elmer 1914 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 2410
Gagnep. 1929: p. 828. – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: t. 95