Ficus subpisocarpa
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Description
Tree up to 7 m tall or shrub, hemi-epilithic or terrestrial, deciduous (?).
internal hairs absent.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules 0.3-0.7 (on opening shoots up to 5) cm long, sparsely or densely puberulous, caducous or subpersistent, (usually) forming a ovoid (to subglobose) terminal bud.
Ovary red-brown.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Cambodia (Cambodia present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Ceram present, Ryukyu Islands present, S China present, S Japan present
S Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, S China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Pankor Island) and Moluccas (Ceram).
Notes
4The collection from Pankor Island represented a form of F. subpisocarpa that has to be described as subspecies, is characterized by a (minutely) hairy base of the petiole of which the epidermis does not flake off, and extends from Vietnam through Cambodia and Thailand to Peninsular Malaysia.
3It differs from F. caulocarpa in the caducous bracts and exfoliation of the epidermis of the petiole only at its base.
2The species differs from F. superba in the smaller glabrous or inconspicuous (terminal) stipules and the shorter sparsely hairy to glabrous peduncles. Moreover, the epidermis of the base of the petiole is usually flaking off.
1The disjunct occurrence of this species in Ceram is noteworthy.