Ficus insipida subsp. scabra
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Description
Tree up to 35m tall. Branchlets 3-7 mm thick, hirtellous. Stipules 4-9.5 cm long, puberulous, caducous; petiole 2.5-6.5(-8.5) cm long; blade coriaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 9-32 x 3-15 cm, apex acuminate to subacute, base rounded to obtuse or to subcordate, margin entire, scabrous, hispidulous to puberulous above, scabridulous, hispidulous to hirtellous beneath; secondary veins 15-25 pairs. Figs solitary in the leaf axils, (sub)globose, 1.5-2.5 cm in diam., more or less densely, minutely puberulous, at maturity greenish; peduncle 0.7-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, 2.5 mm long; ostiole ca. 2-3 mm in diam., plane sometimes somewhat mamillate.
Distribution
Bolivar present, Brownsberg present, Delta Amacuro present, E Colombia, Essequibo River, White Creek present, French Guiana present, Guianas present, Guyana present, Lower Amazon Basin present, Montagne de la Trinite present, NE Venezuela present, Oyapock River, near Saut Armontabo and Trois Sauts present, Southern America: Brazil North (Amapá present, Pará present), Surinam present, Suriname River present
The Guianas: French Guiana (Oyapock River, near Saut Armontabo and Trois Sauts; Montagne de la Trinite), Surinam (Brownsberg; Suriname River), Guyana (Essequibo River, White Creek), extending to the Lower Amazon Basin (Amapa and Para) and NE Venezuela (Bolivar and Delta Amacuro), possibly also in E Colombia;.