Ficus subnervosa Corner

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Tree up to 25 m tall, without or with buttresses. Branchlets drying brown to greyish (leafy twigs sometimes blackish). Leafy twigs 1-3 mm thick, hollow, ± angular, glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged (to subdistichous); lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub) obovate, (4-)8-22 by (1.5-)4-10 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate, base cuneate to subattenuate, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins (5-)7-10 pairs, the basal pair slightly or not distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)1-2.5 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-2.8 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.5-1.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, c. 1 mm long, often scattered on the peduncle, c. 1 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, (0.7-)1-2 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-3 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate, very sparsely and minutely whitish puberulous to glabrous, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., slightly prominent to flat; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamen 1.
More
Pending. See Corner (1960: 411), Cooper & Cooper (2004), and Zich et al., Ficus subnervosa, in Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edn 8 (2020).
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 25.0
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Rainforest (riparian vine forest, notophyll vineforest, littoral rainforest), often near creeks.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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

Ficus subnervosa world distribution map, present in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Conservation status

Ficus subnervosa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:584144-1
WFO ID wfo-0000690468
COL ID 6HY5N
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Synonyms

Ficus subnervosa