Ficus tunicata

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Ficus tunicata

Description

Tree. internal hairs abundant, brown. Leaves spirally arranged; stipules c. 1.5 cm long, brown strigillose, caducous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present), Great Kai Island present
Malesia: Moluccas (Great Kai Island).

Taxonomy

This species is in vegetative parts quite similar to F. subcongesta, in particular to specimens with symmetric and ± scabrous laminas, but it clearly differs in features of the figs, as in the glabrous surface of the receptacle and the abundant internal hairs.

Citation

Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 88