Ficus erythrosperma
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Description
Tree up to 28 m tall, becoming (up to 3 m high) buttressed.
internal hairs copious, whitish or yellowish.
Leaves spirally arranged (to subdistichous);
stipules (0.5-)1-2.5 cm long, densely to (very) sparsely brown, subvillous to subsericeous, at least one of the pairs on the whole surface to only on the keel, the other glabrous or only hairy at the base, caducous.
Distribution
Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Bacan present, Ceram present, From Malesia to the Solomon Islands present, Key Islands present, New Britain present, Ternate present
From Malesia to the Solomon Islands; in Malesia: Celebes, Moluccas (Bacan, Ternate, Ceram, Ambon and Key Islands) and New Guinea (incl. New Britain).
Taxonomy
1A form with subpersistent stipules (from Papua New Guinea) has been described as F. tenella; the few collections showing this feature are included in F. erythrosperma.
2 This species is closely related to F. trichocerasa and F. pilulifera from which it can be distinguished by the indumentum of the lower leaf surface, being (almost) confined to the midrib and the lateral veins and consisting of pale brown (almost) straight hairs of similar length.
Citation
King 1888 – In: Sp. Ficus. p 181
Corner 1960 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 18. p 31
Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22. p 93
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21. p 82
Summerh. 1941 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 22. p 93
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 187
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 230
Diels 1935 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 187