Ficus pertusa

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Ficus pertusa

Description

Tree up to 20 m tall. Branchlets 1-3.5 mm thick, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous, caducous; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous; blade subcoriaceous to coriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly obovate, 4.5-12.5 x 2.5-6.5 cm, apex acuminate to subacute, base rounded to acute, sometimes truncate, margin entire, glabrous above, (almost) glabrous beneath; secondary veins 10-12 pairs. Figs usually in P,airs in the leaf axils, (sub)globose, 0.4-0.8 cm in diam., usually glabrous, at maturity greenish with or without red, purple or brownish spots; peduncle 0.3-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 2, ca. 2.5 mm long; ostiole more or less deeply sunken in the crateriform apex of the fig.

Distribution

East Brazil present, Guianas present, Jamaica present, Northern America
From Jamaica and Mexico to East Brazil; common in the Guianas.

Figures

Figs usually in P,airs in the leaf axils, , , , ;1
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