Ficus botryocarpa subsp. hirtella C.C.Berg

Subspecies

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Characteristics

Leafy twigs whitish (to brownish) partly puberulous to hirtellous, partly with appressed hairs, hairs of different length. Lamina drying greyish; upper surface (sub) glabrous, smooth, lower surface whitish to brownish hirtellous to puberulous on the veins, often with ± retrorse hairs, smooth; lateral veins (4-)6-10 pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.4-1.5 cm long, whitish hirtellous; stipules 0.6-1.6 cm long, whitish to yellowish to brownish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous. Fig peduncle 0.8-1.8 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate (or scattered), 1-2.5 mm long; receptacle depressed-globose, (1-)1.5-2 cm diam. when dry, c. 2.5 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate or sometimes up to 0.3 cm long stipitate, sparsely whitish puberulous, without lateral bracts, finely, 15(-20-)ribbed, with conspicuous lenticels, ostiole 5-6 mm diam., ± prominent.
More
A fig. It is a tree.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality gynodioecy
Pollination entomogamy
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Environment

It is a tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

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Edible leaves
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Distribution

Ficus botryocarpa subsp. hirtella world distribution map, present in Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60433113-2
WFO ID wfo-0000687571
COL ID 5HCPK
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Synonyms

Ficus conora Ficus botryocarpa subsp. hirtella Ficus botryocarpa f. scabrida