e-Flora of Thailand
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PHA3. Ficus capillipes Gagnep.wfo-0000687679
Notul. Syst. (Paris) 4: 87. 1927; Gagnep., Fl. Indo-Chine 5: 815. 1928; C.C.Berg, Blumea 53: 325. 2008, t. 1. Plate LX: 7.
Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.
Description : Tree to 20 m tall, deciduous. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 2–3 mm thick, solid, ± densely white puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged (or opposite); lamina oblong, elliptic or subobovate, 4–12(–17) by 1–5(–7) cm, symmetrical, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to cuneate, margin entire to subrepand, slightly revolute; upper surface (rather) sparsely white puberulous to tomentose, mainly on the veins, or (sub)glabrous, lower surface ± densely to sparsely (minutely) puberulous on the veins; cystoliths on both sides; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 4–6 pairs, the basal lateral veins to ca ¼–½ the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flush beneath; waxy glands absent; petiole 1–4.5 cm long, hardly to distinctly varying in length on the same twig, ± densely white puberulous to subtomentose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.3–0.5 cm long, white puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs (or solitary); peduncle ca 0.5–1–5 cm long; basal bracts 3, sometimes subverticillate, 1–1.5 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose (to ovoid), when dry 0.8–1.3 cm diam., non-stipitate or to 0.5 cm long stipitate, ± densely white puberulous, colour at maturity unknown, apex slightly umbonate, ostiole ca 3–3.5 mm diam., prominent or flat; internal hairs absent. Tepals dark red, glabrous. Stamens 1 (or 2).
Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, Lampang; SOUTH-EASTERN: Chon Buri; PENINSULAR: Phuket, Trang.
Distribution : India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Vietnam (type), Cambodia, Indonesia (Sumatra).
Ecology : Dry evergreen and mixed deciduous forests, to 550 m alt.
Vernacular : Sai (ไทร)(Saraburi); khang khao (ขางขาว)(Lampang); ra-wia (ระเวีย)(Khmer-Chanthaburi).
Notes: The outer/upper ostiolar bracts are short, several, to ca 10, mostly pointing upwards, sometimes flat, leaving a pore in the centre or the ostiole.