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URO10. Ficus caulocarpa (Miq.) Miq.wfo-0000687737

Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 268, 287. 1867; Corner, Gard. Bull. Singapore 10: 283. 1939; C.C.Berg & Corner, Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 17(2): 604. 2005.— Urostigma caulocarpum Miq., London J. Bot. 6: 568. 1847.— Ficus infectoria var. caulocarpa (Miq.) King, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 1(1): 63, t. 79. 1887.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Tree to 20(–35) m tall, hemi-epiphytic, deciduous. Branches drying (red-)brown. Leafy twigs 2–5 mm thick, slightly angular to subterete, glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong, elliptic, (sub)ovate or subobovate (or lanceolate), 6–19 by 2–7.5 cm, (sub)coriaceous, apex (short-)acuminate, the acumen obtuse to acute, base rounded to subcordate or obtuse (to cuneate); upper and lower surface glabrous; cystoliths only below; lateral veins 10–16 pairs, the basal pair to ca ⅒ the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins; waxy gland at the base of the midrib, mostly in a groove when dry; petiole (1.5–)2–5(–8) cm long, 1.5–2 mm thick, glabrous (or minutely puberulous), the epidermis usually flaking off, and then mostly only at the uppermost part or also at the base; stipules 0.2–0.8(–1) (on opening-shoots to 4.5) cm long, glabrous or white puberulous (sometimes only on the margins), caducous or subpersistent at the apices of leafy twigs, forming ovoid terminal buds. Figs axillary and to 8 together on spurs on the older wood; peduncle (0.0–)0.1–0.5 cm long, puberulous to glabrous; basal bracts 3, 1.5–2(–3) mm long, puberulous or glabrous, often splitting into lobes, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.3–0.5 cm diam. When dry, glabrous, turning from white to pink and then purple to blackish at maturity, apex convex to flat, ostiole ca 1.5 mm diam., ± prominent to flat, the upper ostiolar bracts glabrous; internal hairs abundant, chaffy. Staminate flowers near the ostiole. Tepals reddish. Ovary dark red.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, Tak; NORTH-EASTERN: Khon Kaen; PENINSULAR: Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla, Yala, Narathiwat.

Distribution : Sri Lanka, Burma, Ryukyus, Taiwan, Peninsular and Bornean Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Papua), the Philippines (type), Papua New Guinea.

Ecology : Evergreen, dry evergreen and montane forests, to 2,000 m alt.

Notes: The figs are normally pedunculate, those of Geesink et al. 8132 -L are sessile.