Ficus lepicarpa
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Description
Shrub or tree up to 12 m tall.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves spirally arranged or subopposite, lamina subobovate to oblong to obovate to elliptic, (5-)8-24(-32) by (1.5-)3-11(-14) cm, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to cuneate to truncate to subcordate, margin (sub)entire;
stipules 1.2-2.6 cm long, (sparsely) white appressed-puberulous or glabrous, caducous or subpersistent.
Distribution
Ambon present, Anambas and Natoena Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sarawak present); Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Bacan present, Buru present, Ceram present, Halmahera present, Lower Myanmar present, Minahassa present, Obi present, Palawan present, Peninsular Thailand present, S Celebes present, Saba present, Sulu Archipelago present, and adjacent islands present
Lower Myanmar, Peninsular Thailand, and Malesia; in Malesia: Sumatra (and adjacent islands), Malay Peninsula (excl. Singapore), Java, Borneo (Saba, Sarawak, also Anambas and Natoena Islands), Philippines (Palawan and Sulu Archipelago), Celebes (Minahassa and S Celebes), Moluccas (Halmahera, Bacan, Obi, Buru, Ceram, Ambon).
Notes
2The identity of var. suluensis Corner could not be verified.
1Material with short-pedunculate figs are found in Borneo, the Malay Peninsula (Johore), and the Moluccas. Material from Celebes and the Moluccas have mostly depressed-globose fig receptacles, whereas they are typically globose to ellipsoid or to obovoid.
Citation
H.J.P. Winkl. 1913 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 363
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 90
Koord. 1898: Minah.: 603
Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins.: 1011
Solms 1885: Bot. Zeit: 535: t. V, f. 1-5, 9, 10
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 33
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 683: f. 252
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 327
Ochse & Bakh. 1931: Veg. Dutch East Indies: 502
Koord. 1918 – In: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 768
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 343
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 224
Corner 1933: p. 28. – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: f. 14, 15
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 212
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 324
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 150
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 283, 297
King 1888: p. 118. – In: Sp. Ficus: t. 156
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 398
Blume 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 282
Blume 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 525
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 224