Ficus melinocarpa Blume

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Tree up to 35 m tall, with buttresses up to 2 m high or without, deciduous. Branchlets often drying blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-4 mm thick, hispidulous to puberulous (to hirtellous) or to glabrous, scabrous to smooth; internodes usually hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to ovate to obovate to oblong, (3-)5-15(-26) by 2-7(-13) cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex shortly acuminate to rounded, base ± inequilateral and subcordate to cuneate, margin irregularly crenate-dent(icul)ate to entire; upper surface puberulous mainly on the main veins to hispidulous or (sub)glabrous, ± scabrous to smooth, sometimes ± bullate, lower surface densely to sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous (to hirtellous to subvelutinous) on the veins or to (sub)glabrous, smooth to scabridulous; cystoliths on both sides; tertiary veins slightly prominent and smaller ones often flat beneath; lateral veins (3-)5-8(-9) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/2 the length of the lamina, these branched and mostly also other lateral veins branched or furcate, tertiary venation (laxly) scalariform; the waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins, often extended to or largely on the midrib; petiole 0.5-3(-4) cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, sparsely to densely puberulous (to hirtellous to subvelutinous) to hispidulous or to subglabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules amplexicaul, 0.5-1(-1.2) cm long, (minutely) puberulous or only ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs; peduncle 0.2-1(-1.5) cm long; peduncular bracts 3, often verticillate from the lower half up to the apex of the peduncle, 1-1.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose to ellipsoid, (0.6-)0.8-1.4 cm diam. when dry, 1.2-2 cm diam. when fresh, minutely hispidulous, scabridulous, without lateral bracts, yellow to orange or red to purple-black at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-3 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant. Tepals pinkish, glabrous or hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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Buttressed tree to 35 m high; trunk to 40 cm diam., usually not a strangler fig but prop roots may be present. Leaves (opposite or) alternate; lamina oblong, oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, (4–) 16–20 cm long, (2.5–) 7–9 cm wide, unequally rounded to cordate at base, entire margin (sometimes partly toothed), acute to shortly acuminate at apex, lightly scabrid (sandpapery); lateral veins c. 10 pairs; petiole c. 2 cm long; stipules 5–10 mm long. Figs axillary, ± globular to obovoid, 1–1.5 mm diam., orange or red, lightly scabrid; ostiole slightly raised, apical bracts slightly protruding; basal bracts persistent; peduncle 3–4 mm long. Male flowers shortly pedicellate. Female flowers subsessile.
A tree. It grows 35 m tall. It has buttresses 4 m tall.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing hemiepiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 35.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Often a canopy tree in lowland to montane forest, at elevations up to 2,200 metres.
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Rainforest and drier, more seasonal rainforest.
It is a tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use food fuel material medicinal poison wood
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Therapeutic use Arthritis (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Breast (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Convulsion (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Distribution

Ficus melinocarpa world distribution map, present in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands

Conservation status

Ficus melinocarpa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:853207-1
WFO ID wfo-0000689277
COL ID 6HX5C
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ficus melinocarpa f. glabrior Ficus obliqua Pogonotrophe alnifolia Ficus haggeri Ficus melinocarpa Ficus collinsii Ficus daemonum Ficus hololampra Ficus irosinensis Ficus alnifolia Ficus melinocarpa var. hololampra