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URO22. Ficus globosa Blumewfo-0000688502

Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 449. 1825; Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 262, 285, 1867; King, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 1(1): 27, t. 25. 1887; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 3: 333. 1924; Corner, Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 380. 1960; Kochummen, Tree Fl. Malaya 3: 147. 1978; Kochummen, Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak 3: 246. 2000; C.C.Berg & Corner, Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 17(2): 657. 2005.— Urostigma globosum (Blume) Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(2): 335. 1859. Plate LXIX: 4–5.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

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Description : Climber, hemi-epiphytic shrub or treelet, or free-standing (?) tree to 20 m tall. Branches drying yellowish to brown, often with short adventitious roots. Leafy twigs 2–6(–8) mm thick, ± angular, with sparse to dense, dark brown appressed indumentum (scurfy). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (or oblanceolate), (5–)10–20(–26) by (2–)5–9(–11) cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded, obtuse, subcordate or cuneate; both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib flush to slightly impressed above, lateral veins 6–14 pairs, the basal pair ± distinct, to ⅛–⅙(–¼) the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched or unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1.5–5(–8) cm long, 2–3 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish; stipules (0.5–)1–1.5(–4) cm (on opening shoots to 10 cm) long, with sparse to dense, dark brown appressed indumentum or subglabrous, caducous. Figs axillary (or just below the leaves), in pairs (or solitary), initially enclosed in calyptrate bud covers to 0.8 cm long; peduncle 0.1–0.7 cm long, the apex slightly dilated, passing into the bracts; basal bracts 3, 0.5–2 mm long, subequal, with dark brown scurfy indumentum (and whitish ciliolate), persistent; receptacle ellipsoid to subglobose, 0.8–1.2 cm diam. when dry, ca 1.5 cm diam. when fresh, with sparse to dense, dark brown appressed indumentum (scurfy), greenish (?) at maturity, apex slightly convex to flat or concave, ostiole 2–2.5 mm diam., ± prominent, (when dry) often surrounded by a rim, ± open, the 3(–5) upper ostiolar bracts unequal, not or hardly imbricate, thick; wall slightly shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly reddish.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Lampang; CENTRAL: Saraburi; SOUTH-EASTERN: Chachoengsao, Chanthaburi; PENINSULAR: Ranong, Surat Thani, Phangnga, Krabi, Trang, Satun, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat.

Distribution : Burma, Peninsular and Bornean Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java – type, Kalimantan).

Ecology : Evergreen and dry evergreen forests, at low altitudes.

Vernacular : Sai (ไทร)(Trang); sai luk klom (ไทรลูกกลม)(Narathiwat); yue-lai-ka yu (ยือไลกายู)(Malay-Narathiwat).