Ficus blepharophylla

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Ficus blepharophylla

Description

Tree up to 10m tall. Branchlets 2-3 mm thick, brown- to white-tomentose. Stipules 0.5-1 cm long, brown-subsericeous to -subtomentose, subpersistent; petiole 0.5-5 cm long; blade coriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, or obovate to narrowly obovate, 1.5-5 x 1-2.5 cm, apex very shortly acuminate to rounded, base obtuse to subcordate, margin entire, ciliolate, glabrous above, sparsely tomentose (to hirtellous) on the main veins beneath; secondary veins 5-7 pairs. Figs in pairs in the leaf axils, subglobose, ca. 0.5 cm in diam., densely white puberulous, sessile; basal bracts 2, 1.5 mm long; ostiole ca. 1.5 mm in diam., surrounded by a slightly lobed rim.

Distribution

Guyana, Southern America: Brazil North (Roraima present)
Only known from the type locality in Roraima (Brazil), to be expected in Guyana.

Figures

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