Ficus paludica

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Ficus paludica

Description

Tree up to 20 m tall. Branchlets 3-5 mm thick, minutely puberulous. Stipules 1-2.5 cm long, appressed-puberulous, caducous; petiole (2-)4-12 cm long, glabrous, often blackish when dry; blade (sub)coriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, or to narrowly ovate, 10-24 x 6-13.5 cm, apex subacute to faintly acuminate, base truncate to subacute or to subcordate, margin entire, glabrous above and beneath; secondary veins 8-12 pairs. Figs in pairs in the leaf axils, (more or less depressed-) globose to broadly turbinate (usually broader than high), 0.8-1.2 cm in diam., minutely puberulous, sessile or up to 0.2 cm long pedunculate; basal bracts 2, 3-4 mm long; ostiole ca. 2 mm in diam., in a plane to ± concave apex of the fig.

Distribution

Delta Amacuro present, Guyana present, NE Brazil present, NE Venezuela present, Southern America: Brazil North (Amapá present), Surinam present
Surinam and Guyana, extending to NE Venezuela (Delta Amacuro) and NE Brazil (Amapa).

Figures

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