Description
Root-climber.
Branchlets drying brown;
internal hairs absent.
Leaves in lax spirals to distichous;
stipules 1.5-2.5 cm long, sparsely, but along the margin densely minutely appressed-puberulous, and on the keel and the apex brown strigillose, (sub)persistent.
Stamens 1 (or 2).
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Samar present
Taxonomy
This species belongs to the set of species including F. apiocarpa and F. peninsula. It is distinct in the numerous lateral veins, in the persistent stipules with a conspicuously hairy keel, and probably also in the figs, not born in leaf axils.
