Ficus heterophylla

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Ficus heterophylla

Description

Shrub up to 3(-6) m tall, often prostrate and rooting on the branches, sometimes ± climbing (straggling). Branchlets drying brown. internal hairs absent. Leaves distichous (or opposite); stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.5 cm long, puberulous, caducous.

Distribution

Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present), Eastern present, From Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar to China present, Southern present
From Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar to China (Guangdong, Hainan), Indochina, Thailand and Malesia; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo (southern and eastern).

Taxonomy

Material from the Asian mainland included in var. assamica (Miq.) Corner () belongs to a distinct species for which the name F. repens Roxb. ex Willd. is to be applied.

Citation

Kunth & C.D. Bouché 1847 – In: Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. p 21
Vahl 1805 – In: Enum. Pl. p 201
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 26
Vahl 1847 – In: Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. p 254
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins. p 339
Blume 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 298
F.B. Forbes & Hemsl. 1899 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot. p 461
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21. p 73
Renner 1907 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 395
L.f. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 297
Gagnep. 1928 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine. p 775
King 1888: p. 75. – In: Sp. Ficus. t. 94
Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma. p 455
Vahl 1805 – In: Enum. Pl. p 203
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3. p 290
Vahl 1805 – In: Enum. Pl. p 202
Buch.-Ham. 1826 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc. p 144
Lour. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p 290
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot. p 229
Trimen 1898 – In: Fl. Ceyl. p 93
L.f. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 271, 291
Wight 1843 – In: Ic. Pl. Ind. Orient. t. 661
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot. p 227
Talbot 1911 – In: For. Fl. Bomb. p 521
Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java. p 188
Miq. in Zoll. 1854: p. 93. – In: Syst. Verz. ‘biglandulosa’
Roxb. 1867 – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p 291
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3. p 292
Kochummen 1978 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya. p 148
Watt 1890 – In: Dict. Econ. Prod. India. p 353
L.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India. p 518
Miq. 1848 – In: London J. Bot. p 231
L.f. 1977: p. 150. – In: Rev. Handbook Fl. Ceyl. t. 24
Roxb. 1832: Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 3. p 531
Blume 1825: Bijdr. p 472
Wight 1843 – In: Ic. t. 659
King 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India. p 519