Ficus banahaensis
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Description
Tree up to 7 m tall.
internal hairs abundant, whitish.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules 0.8-1.2 cm long, whitish to yellowish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Leyte present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Samar present
Philippines (Luzon, Samar, Leyte, Mindanao).
Taxonomy
The species is very close to F. glandulifera, but it can be readily distinguished and merits the rank of species and not that of variety in F. glandulifera (). It differs from F. glandulifera, e.g., in the absence of the waxy glandular spots at the base of the petiole, a somewhat different venation of the lamina, as in the basal lateral veins running up to 1/2-2/3 the length of the lamina, the sparse indumentum on the leafy twigs, the figs being (sub)glabrous, even around the ostiole, and the usually repand margin of the lamina.