Ficus padifolia
Content
Description
Shrub or tree up to 10 m tall. Branchlets 1.5-3 mm thick, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Stipules 0.7-2 cm long, minutely puberulous or glabrous, caducous; petiole 1-2.5 cm long; blade coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 5-16 x 3-7.5 cm, apex acuminate, base subcordate to emarginate to rounded, glabrous above and beneath; secondary veins (6-)10-12 pairs. Figs in pairs in the leaf axils, globose to obovoid, 0.8-1.2 cm in diam., glabrous or minutely puberulous, at maturity greenish; peduncle 0.4-1 cm long; basal bracts 2, 1-1.5 mm long; ostiole ca. 2 mm in diam., sunken in the crateriform apex.
Distribution
E Brazil present, French Guiana absent, Northern America, Surinam absent
From Mexico to E Brazil, not in Surinam and French Guiana.
Notes
The collections from Guyana, FD 2970 and FD 6093, largely match F. padifolia in the dimensions of the leaves and figs, but they are more or less different in the emarginate to subcordate leaf base and in the usually ± prominent venation in dried leaves above. They might represent a distinct taxon within the F. pertusa complex .