Ficus ribes
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Description
Tree up to 20 m tall.
internal hairs sparse to abundant, white to brownish.
Leaves (sub)distichous, sometimes subopposite;
stipules 0.5-1(-1.8) cm long, brown(ish) strigillose, hirtellous to subsericeous (or glabrous), subpersistent or caducous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present)
Thailand and Malesia; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Java.
Taxonomy
1Ficus ribes is very closely related to F. arfakensis, as discussed under the latter.
2Some collections from the lowlands of Atjeh (Gunung Leuser National Park) differ somewhat in having relatively large leaves with on the lower surface the hairs more or less patent (but appressed on the leafy twigs and petioles). This form could be confused with F. serraria, but it can be distinguished by the rather sparse appressed indumentum on the petioles and the leafy twigs, and the glabrous fig receptacle.
Citation
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 155
K. Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl. Ned.-Indië: 573
Solms 1885: Bot. Zeit.: 537
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 284, 297
Miq. 1851: Pl. Jungh.: 67
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 201
Blume 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 524
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 28
Koord. 1918 – In: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 764
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 398
Ridl. 1925 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 334
Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 458
Miq. 1861: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 434
Corner 1933 – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: 43
King 1888: p. 110. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 144
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 85