Ficus trachypison
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Description
Tree up to 30 m tall, slightly buttressed, deciduous (?).
Branchlets often drying dark (red-)brown.
internal hairs abundant.
Leaves distichous;
stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-1 cm long, appressed-puberulous to strigillose, caducous.
Distribution
Ambon present, Aru Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Kai Islands present, Minahassa present
Celebes (Minahassa), Moluccas (Ambon, Kai Islands, Aru Islands), New Guinea.
Notes
1This species can be distinguished from F. stellaris by the presence of additional waxy glandular spots in the axils of lateral veins others than the basal ones, the small fig receptacle (0.4-0.8 cm diam. when dry), the figs often occurring in clusters on short-shoots (far) below the leaves, the longer and often softer indumentum on leafy twigs and the lamina beneath. Only the collections from Celebes and the Moluccas match the short indumentum characteristic for F. stellaris. Moreover, F. trachypison is a lowland species, whereas F. stellaris mostly occur at altitudes between 1200 and 2300 m, or at low elevations (below 100 m) on river banks or in rivers beds, or rocky surfaces.
4Collection Millar NGF 22737 (from New Guinea, Morobe Province) is not included in the description. It is distinct in the larger receptacle, 1.2-1.5 cm diam. when dry, covered with dense white tomentose indumentum and with a 2-2.5 cm wide ostiole; it might represent an undescribed species.
3This species shows close affinities to F. quercetorum and F. macrorrhyncha (as discussed under the former), as well as affinities to F. melinocarpa.
2Ficus trachypison var. pallida Corner (1960) is currently included in F. ampelas.
Citation
Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 95
K. Schum. 1967: p. 97. – In: Philos. Trans.: t. 27
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 206
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 207
Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 91
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 199
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 68
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 207