Ficus schumacheri

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Description

Tree up to 25 m tall, sometimes lianescent. Branchlets 1-2 mm thick, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Stipules 0.3-0.8 cm long, minutely puberulous or glabrous, caducous, sometimes subpersistent; petiole 0.3-1(-1.3) cm long; glabrous or minutely puberulous; blade subcoriaceous to chartaceous, narrowly elliptic, 2.5-9 x 0.7-2 cm, apex subacute to subobtuse, sometimes faintly acuminate, base emarginate to rounded to acute, margin entire, glabrous (or puberulous at the base of the primary vein) above and beneath; secondary veins (8-)10-15 pairs. Figs usually in pairs in the leaf axils, (sub)globose, 0.3-0.4(-0.5) cm in diam., (almost) glabrous, at maturity (pale) greenish with red, purple or brown spots; peduncle 0.1-0.2 cm long; basal bracts 2, ca. 1.5 mm long; ostiole 1.5-2 mm in diam., plane to slightly impressed.

Distribution

Guianas present, Southern America, Trinidad present, northern Para present, northern Venezuela present

From northern Venezuela and Trinidad through the Guianas to northern Para (Brazil).

Common Name

English: kwaps'isili

Figures

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

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Notes

F. schumacheri is probably only an eastern (rather uniform, narrow-leaved) form of the polymorphic F. pallida Vahl, which extends from N Venezuela and N Colombia through the Upper Amazon Basin to Central Brazil. F. schumacheri can easily be confused with F. leiophylla.