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SY016. Ficus variegata Blumewfo-0000690793

Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 459. 1825; Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 295. 1867; King, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 1(2): 169, t. 212. 1888; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 5: 335. 1925; Gagnep., Fl. Indo-Chine 5: 808. 1928; Corner, J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 11: 48, f. 25, 26. 1933; Kochummen, Tree Fl. Malaya 3: 160. 1978; Kochummen, Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak 3: 314, t. 12. 2000; C.C.Berg & Corner, Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 17(2): 347. Plate LXV: 2.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Tree to 25(–40) m tall, becoming buttressed, deciduous. Leafy twigs 2–5 mm thick, glabrous or appressed-puberulous; internodes hollow or solid; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate, subovate, elliptic or oblong, 6–20(–35) by 2–10(–15) cm, symmetrical; subcoriaceous to chartaceous (or coriaceous), apex acuminate, subacute or obtuse, base cordate, subcordate or obtuse (or cuneate or subattenuate), margin (sub)entire (or coarsely dentate); upper surface glabrous or puberulous on the main veins, smooth, lower surface minutely appressed-puberulous (or patent-puberulous) on the veins; cystoliths only below, lateral veins (3–)4–9(–14) pairs, the basal pair to ¼–⅔ the length of the lamina, often unequal in length, branched, some or none of the other lateral veins forked away from the margin; tertiary venation scalariform, sometimes loosely so and almost reticulate; waxy glands in (± clear) slit shaped extensions of the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins; petiole 2–14 cm long, glabrous or appressed-puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5–1.2 cm long, glabrous (and then often partly “corky” and flaking off) or yellowish appressed-puberulous, at least at the base and/ or the apex, caducous. Figs on tuberculate spurs on minor branches and/or on clustered, sparingly branched, to 7 cm long, leafless branchlets on the older wood, down to the trunk; peduncle (0.5–)1–6(–9) cm long; basal bracts 3, 0.5–2.5 mm long, (obliquely) verticillate, sometimes ± scattered, persistent (or caducous); receptacle subglobose, pyriform or ellipsoid, (1–)1.5–2.5 cm diam. when dry, (1.5–)2–3.5(–5) cm diam. when fresh, to 0.8 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, (sub)glabrous or minutely puberulous, pink to red (or sometimes green) at maturity, sometimes faintly ribbed when dry, the inner surface often with low flower-bearing projections, apex ± concave to flat or slightly convex, ostiole 3–4 mm diam., ± prominent; wall to 8 mm thick when dry; internal hairs usually absent. Tepals of pistillate flowers free or basally connate, lanceolate or spathulate, entire. Styles glabrous. Fruits smooth.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, Phayao, Sukhothai; EASTERN: Nakhon Ratchasima; CENTRAL: Saraburi, Nakhon Nayok; SOUTH-EASTERN: Chon Buri; PENINSULAR: Ranong, Phangnga, Krabi, Yala, Narathiwat.

Distribution : India (NE, Andaman Islands), Burma, S China, Ryukyus, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Peninsular and Bornean Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia (type, throughout), the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Australia.

Ecology : Evergreen and dry evergreen forests, to 1,100 m alt.

Vernacular : Phuk (ผูก)(Krabi); duea phlong (เดื่อโพลง)(Yala).