Ficus pubigera (Miq.) Wall. ex Brandis

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Root-climber. Branchlets drying (dark) brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, sparsely to densely (white to) brown appressed-puberulous to tomentose to villous, with some conspicuous lenticels below the nodes. Leaves spirally arranged to distichous; lamina oblong to subovate (to lanceolate), (5-)10-25(-30) by (2-)4-10 cm, (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, apex acuminate, base (almost) equilateral, cuneate to rounded (to subcordate), margin entire; upper surface glabrous or sparsely subtomentose, lower surface sparsely to densely tomentose to (sub)villous or to appressed-pubescent to-puberulous, on all veins or mainly on the main ones; cystoliths only beneath; midrib reaching the apex, lateral veins 8-12 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/5-1/3 the length of the lamina, faintly branched, tertiary venation (sub)reticulate, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole (0.2-)0.8-1.5(-2) cm long, brownish appressed-puberulous to-pubescent to tomentose to villous, the epidermis ± flaking off (or persistent?); stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, brownish hirtellous to subsericeous or to subvillous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary (or in pairs), (sub)sessile; basal bracts 1.5-4 mm long, persistent; receptacle (sub)globose, 1-2 cm diam. when dry, c. 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, sparsely to densely brown(ish) (sub)tomentose, often ± pustulate by lenticels, greenish at maturity, apex ± umbonate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant, long, stiff, and brownish. Tepals red, those of pistillate flowers sometimes hairy at the apex. Stamens 2.
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Shrubs, scandent. Old branchlets glabrous, young branchlets densely covered with coarse dark brown hairs. Stipules caducous, lanceolate, ca. 4 cm. Leaves distichous; petiole ca. 1 cm, sparsely pubescent; leaf blade brown when dry, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 7-35 × 2.5-15 cm, ± leathery, glabrous, abaxially pubescent and glabrescent, densely covered with brownish red short pubescence or densely brown tomentose, adaxially glabrous or pubescent among veins, base cuneate to occasionally rounded, margin entire, apex shortly acuminate; basal lateral veins not extending to 1/3 of leaf blade length, secondary veins 5-7 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on leafy or on leafless branchlets, globose, pear-shaped, or conic, 1-2(-5) cm in diam., surface sparsely tuberculate, glabrous, pubescent, or densely covered with brown scale-like hairs, inside with bristles, sessile or pedunculate, apical pore slightly navel-like; involucral bracts reniform, pubescent. Male flowers: near apical pore, pedicellate; calyx lobes 4, oblanceolate, unequal in size; stamens 2; filaments very short; anthers oblong, mucronate. Gall flowers: pedicellate; calyx lobes 4, ± spatulate, unequal in size; style subapical. Female flowers: subsessile; calyx lobes 4; style subapical; stigma small. Achenes oblong, slightly depressed, 2-2.5 mm. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. Jun-Aug.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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

Ficus pubigera world distribution map, present in China, India, Iceland, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, and Thailand

Conservation status

Ficus pubigera threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60442938-2
WFO ID wfo-0000689905
COL ID 6HXWZ
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Synonyms

Ficus howii Ficus pubigera Pogonotrophe pubigera Ficus erecta var. khasiana Ficus verrucosa Pogonotrophe verrucosa

Lower taxons

Ficus pubigera var. maliformis Ficus pubigera var. reticulata