Ficus recurva
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Description
Root-climber.
Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish.
internal hairs few and small or absent.
Leaves distichous;
stipules 0.3-1.2 cm long, sparsely to densely whitish to brownish minutely appressed-puberulous and (sparsely) brown strigillose on the keel and/or the base or only brownish strigillose, caducous or subpersistent.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Myanmar present
Myanmar to Thailand and Malesia; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Philippines.
Taxonomy
2 The presence of this species in Lombok could not be verified, as only a branch with bathyphylls has been referred to F. recurva.
1The species is quite variable and rather complex in its variation. It is characterized by the presence of uncinate hairs, if the hairs are not very short as in var. urnigera. Because of more or less clear discontinuities in the variation five more or less clear-cut varieties can be distinguished. There are few intermediates between var. recurva and var. elegantior, more between var. elegantior and var. ribesioides, and very few (or none?) between var. ribesioides and var. urnigera. Var. pedicellata is distinct in the presence of uncinate hairs on the fig receptacle, but it is in other features linked to both var. elegantior and var. ribesioides.
Citation
Elmer 1912 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot. p 1386
King 1888: p. 131. – In: Sp. Ficus. t. 165A
Blume 1861: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 432
Sata 1944 – In: Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ. p 348
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins. p 345
Koord. 1924 – In: Exk. Fl. Java. t. 778
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl. p 63
Blume 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 279, 294
Blume 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India. p 527
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21. p 56
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java. p 231
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 401
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 23
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 317
Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. p 1013
Blume 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak. p 238
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya. p 154