Ficus supperforata

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Ficus supperforata

Description

Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. internal hairs sparse. Leaves distichous; stipules (0.8-)1-1.5 cm long, densely minutely whitish appressed-puberulous and brown (sub)strigillose on the keel, caducous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present
Borneo.

Taxonomy

This species resembles F. villosa, from which it can be distinguished by the smaller number of lateral veins and the foveolate lower surface of the lamina.

Citation

Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21. p 57
Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak. p 249