Ficus gomelleira
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Description
Tree up to 25(-40) m tall. Branchlets 4-8 mm thick, with minute hairs intermixed with longer brownish to yellowish hairs. Stipules 0.5-2(-3.5) cm long, brownish-hirsute to whitish-pubescent to yellowish-subsericeous, caducous; petiole 1.5-5.5 cm long; blade coriaceous, elliptic (to obovate) to narrowly elliptic (to obovate), 9-26(-33) x 5-13(-17.5) cm, apex rounded to subacute, sometimes subacuminate, base (sub)cordate to rounded, margin (sub)entire, scabridulous to smooth, and (sparsely) puberulous to hirtellous on the main veins to glabrescent above, hirsute to hirtellous on the main veins beneath, and hirtellous to puberulous on the smaller veins beneath; secondary veins (9-)11-16 pairs, reticulum beneath more or less prominent. Figs usually in pairs in the leaf axils, (sub)globose, 1-2.5 cm in diam.puberulous to hirtellous, often wrinkled when dry, at maturity greenish; peduncle (0.2-)0.5-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 2 (or 3), (2-)3-4 mm long; ostiole 2-2.5 mm in diam., surrounded by a triangular or circular rim.
Distribution
Amazon Basin present, E Brazil present, Guianas present, Southern America: Venezuela (Venezuela present)
From E Brazil through the Amazon Basin and the Guianas to Venezuela.
Notes
1: This species has in the Guianas brown indument, whereas whitish to pale-brown indument elsewhere.
2: A recent, sterile collection (Forget 361) made in French Guiana, at the research station along the Arataye River, suggests the occurrence ofF. roraimensis C.C. Berg (Acta Amazonica 14(1/2), Supl.: 209, f. 8. 1984). This species resembles F. gomelleira , but differs e.g. in the presence of appressed brown hairs on the main veins of the blade beneath and smaller figs without a distinct rim around the ostiole.
2: A recent, sterile collection (Forget 361) made in French Guiana, at the research station along the Arataye River, suggests the occurrence of