Ficus heterophylla

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Ficus heterophylla

Description

Shrub up to 3(-6) m tall, often prostrate and rooting on the branches, sometimes ± climbing (straggling). Branchlets drying brown. internal hairs absent. Leaves distichous (or opposite); stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.5 cm long, puberulous, caducous.

Distribution

Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present), Eastern present, From Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar to China present, Southern present
From Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar to China (Guangdong, Hainan), Indochina, Thailand and Malesia; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo (southern and eastern).

Taxonomy

Material from the Asian mainland included in var. assamica (Miq.) Corner () belongs to a distinct species for which the name F. repens Roxb. ex Willd. is to be applied.

Citation

Wight 1843 – In: Ic. Pl. Ind. Orient.: t. 661
Wight 1843 – In: Ic.: t. 659
Roxb. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 291
Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 775
Talbot 1911 – In: For. Fl. Bomb.: 521
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 26
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 290
Roxb. 1832: Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 3: 531
L.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 518
L.f. 1977: p. 150. – In: Rev. Handbook Fl. Ceyl.: t. 24
Vahl 1805 – In: Enum. Pl.: 201
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 395
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 231
Buch.-Ham. 1826 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 144
Blume 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 298
F.B. Forbes & Hemsl. 1899 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 461
L.f. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 297
Trimen 1898 – In: Fl. Ceyl.: 93
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 227
L.f. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 271, 291
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 148
Miq. in Zoll. 1854: p. 93. – In: Syst. Verz.: ‘biglandulosa’
Vahl 1805 – In: Enum. Pl.: 202
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 339
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 292
King 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 519
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 188
Blume 1825: Bijdr.: 472
Lour. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: 290
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 73
Watt 1890 – In: Dict. Econ. Prod. India: 353
Vahl 1847 – In: Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot.: 254
Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 455
King 1888: p. 75. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 94
Vahl 1805 – In: Enum. Pl.: 203
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot.: 229
Kunth & C.D. Bouché 1847 – In: Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol.: 21