Ficus panurensis

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Description

Tree up to 10 m tall. Branchlets 5-8 mm thick, puberulous to villous. Stipules 1-1.8 cm long, striate, appressed-puberulous to -pubescent to villous, caducous; petiole 0.7-2.5 cm long; blade coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, (5-)10-21 x (2-)4-8 cm, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, margin subentire, glabrous above, brownish-tomentose or on the primary (and secondary) veins villous to pubescent and for the rest puberulous or glabrous beneath, tertiary venation prominent beneath; secondary vein pairs (5)8-14, tertiary veins ± reticulate. Figs in pairs in the leaf axils, globose, 0.7-1 cm in diam., brownish-villous or almost glabrous, sessile; basal bracts 2, 2-3 mm long; ostiole ca. 2 mm in diam., surrounded by a 3-lobed rim.

Distribution

Guianas present, NE Amazonas present, Southern America: Venezuela (Venezuela present)

From the Guianas through Venezuela to Brazil (NE Amazonas).

Figures

Figs in pairs in the leaf axils, , , , sessile;1

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Notes

Two forms are found: one form with sparse short indument on the figs and the branchlets, and the other with long hairs on the figs and the branchlets.