Ficus lanata
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Description
Root-climber.
Branchlets drying brown to blackish.
internal hairs abundant.
Leaves distichous;
stipules (0.5-)1-2(-2.5) cm long, sparsely minutely whitish appressed-puberulous and or only brown substrigillose to hirtellous on the keel, caducous (or subpersistent).
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Sumatra, Java, Borneo.
Taxonomy
2 In the material from Borneo, recognized as var. foveolata by Corner, the lamina is ± clearly foveolate and the fig receptacles subglabrous. In the material from Sumatra and Java the lamina is often hardly or not foveolate (but minutely bullate) and the fig receptacles are often densely hairy.
1The species shows strong affinities to F. villosa, from which it mostly differs in the smaller number of lateral veins, the development of a foveolate lower surface of the lamina (mainly in Borneo), and the appressed to patent, rarely tending to retrorse hairs on the main veins of the lamina beneath. However, in the Philippines, in the material referred to F. villosa, the number of lateral veins is often up to 6 pairs, and this material can only be distinguished by the common occurrence of retrorse hairs on the main veins beneath. It is, therefore, somewhat doubtful whether F. lanata merits the rank of species. The distribution of the cystoliths might be a consistent differentiating character.
Citation
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 23
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java. p 234
Koord. 1924 – In: Exk. Fl. Java. t. 777
Corner 1962: p. 391. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19. t. 4
King 1888: p. 137. – In: Sp. Ficus. t. 171
Blume 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p 294
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 401
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21. p 57
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 317
Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak. p 251