Ficus obliqua

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Ficus obliqua

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Description

Tree up to 40 m tall, hemi-epiphytic (or terrestrial?). Leaves spirally arranged; stipules 1-2.5(-3) cm long, minutely puberulous or glabrous, caducous. Fruits basally embedded in the swollen pedicels.

Distribution

Admiralty Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Queensland (Queensland present), Loyalty Islands present, New Britain present, New Caledonia present, New Hebrides present, Niue present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present); Samoa (Samoa present); Tonga (Tonga present), Solomon Islands present, Ternate present
Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Niue; in Malesia: Moluccas (Ternate), New Guinea (incl. Admiralty Islands and New Britain).

Taxonomy

3Collections from the Admiralty Islands and New Britain have small leaves and figs, matching those from the Solomon Islands and other islands in the Pacific region. The other collections (from New Guinea and the Moluccas) have larger leaves and figs. 2This species can be distinguished from F. brachypoda of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the lamina being broadest in the middle, the persistent periderm of the twigs or the petioles shorter than 2.5 cm. 1Material with a slit-shaped aperture of the ostiole found in the Solomon Islands is excluded from the species and described as a new one, F. baola C.C. Berg ().

Citation

Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 286
Summerh. 1932 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 13: 101
W.D. Francis 1951: Austr. Rain-For. Trees: 76: f. 28-30
Benth. 1873 – In: Fl. Austral.: 166
Domin 1921 – In: Bibl. Bot.: 564
F.M. Bailey 1913: Compr. Cat. Qld. Pl.: 485
F.M. Bailey 1902 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 1470
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 287
G. Forst. 1939 – In: Occ. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus.: 112
F.M. Bailey 1913: Compr. Cat. Qld. Pl: 486: f. 476
D.J. Dixon 2001 – In: Austral. Syst. Bot.: 141
Kunth & C.D. Bouché 1847 – In: Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot.: 240
F. Muell. 1913: Compr. Cat. Qld. Pl: 486: f. 474
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 26
Rech. 1910 – In: Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. Wien: 272
G. Forst. 1936 – In: Bull. Bish. Mus.: 55
Kunth & C.D. Bouché 1847 – In: Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot.: 240
G. Forst. 1967: p. 70. – In: Philos. Trans.: t. 11
Guillaumin 1948: Fl. Nouv. Caléd.: 97