Ficus pubilimba Merr.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Tree up to 15 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, ± angular, densely whitish puberulous, glabrescent; periderm persistent (or flaking off). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic, 4-12(-23) by 1.5-5(-10) cm, coriaceous, apex short-acuminate, base rounded to obtuse; upper surface whitish puberulous on the midrib or also on the lateral veins, lower surface ± densely whitish puberulous; cystoliths absent or few above; midrib (almost) flat above, lateral veins (4-)6-8 pairs, the basal pair distinct, up to (1/6-)1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, faintly branched or unbranched, 0 or 1 pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation reticulate, ± prominent; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1-1.5 cm long, 1.5-2 mm thick, ± densely whitish puberulous, drying brown; stipules 0.5-1.2 cm long, whitish subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 0.5-1.5 mm long, ± unequal in shape, sparsely and minutely puberulous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-0.7 cm diam. when dry, sparsely and minutely puberulous, red to purplish at maturity, apex convex to submammillate, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., slightly prominent, open, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts not or partly imbricate, leaving space showing bracts underneath; wall smooth or ribbed towards the ostiole when dry; internal hairs absent or present (sparse). Tepals whitish. Ovary partly red.
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Trees, 10-15 m tall, d.b.h. 15-25 cm. Branchlets green, pale brown when dry, 2-5 mm thick, without ringlike stipular scars, glabrous. Stipules ovate-triangular, without silky hairs. Petiole 2-3 cm, glabrous, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade shortly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 6-10 × 4-7 cm, thickly papery, abaxially grayish green but reddish brown when dry, with cystoliths, adaxially dark green but grayish brown when dry, base ± rounded, margin entire, apex obtuse; basal lateral veins 2, secondary veins 5 or 6 on each side of midvein, abaxially conspicuous, adaxially flat, curved to margin and then reticulate, tertiary veins reticulate. Figs globose, 1-1.3 cm in diam., smooth, apical pore liplike, slightly raised, sessile; involucral bracts caducous, without ringlike scars. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: few; calyx lobes 4; stamen 1. Gall flowers: pedicellate. Female flowers: sessile; sepals 4, lanceolate; stigma subapical. Fl. early summer.
A tree. It grows 10-15 m tall. The trunk is 15-25 cm across. The small branches are green. The leaf stalk is 2-3 cm long. The leaves are narrowly oval and 6-10 cm long by 4-7 cm wide. They are greyish green underneath. The figs are round and 1-1.3 cm across.
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Growth support hemiepiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature width (meter) 0.15 - 0.25
Mature height (meter) 10.0 - 15.0
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It is a tropical plant.
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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 pubilimba world distribution map, present in China, Iceland, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:583994-1
WFO ID wfo-0000689908
COL ID 6HY8Z
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Synonyms

Ficus pubilimba Ficus pubilimba var. ovata