Ficus pubigera (Wall. ex Miq.) Brandis, Forest Fl. N.W. India 424 1874. (Syn: Ficus erecta var. khasiana Miq.; Ficus howii Merr. & Chun; Ficus verrucosa (Miq.) Miq. [Illegitimate]); India (from Garhwal Himalaya to eastwards including Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim), Bhutan, China, Indochina, Malesia, Myanmar, Nepal as per Synopsis of the Genus Ficus L. (Moraceae) in India Lal Babu Chaudhary*, Jana Venkata Sudhakar, Anoop Kumar, Omesh Bajpai, Rinkey Tiwari and G. V. S. Murthy- Taiwania, 57(2): 193-216, 2012; Scandent shrubs. Leaves distichous, oblong-elliptic, glabrous, abaxially pubescent and glabrescent, densely covered with brownish red tomentose, adaxially glabrous or pubescent among veins, base cuneate to occasionally rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate, petiole 1 cm. Stipules caducous, lanceolate. Figs axillary on leafy or leafless branchlets, globose or pear shaped, surface sparsely tuberculate, glabrous, pubescent, or densely brown hairs, inside with bristles, sessile or pedunculate, involucral bracts reniform, pubescent. Male flowers near apical pore, pedicellate, calyx lobes 4, oblanceolate, unequal in size, stamens 2, filaments very short, anthers oblong, mucronate. Gall flowers pedicellate, calyx lobes 4 spatulate, unequal in size, style subapical. Female flowers subsessile, calyx lobes 4, style subapical, stigma small. Achenes oblong, slightly depressed, Syconus fruit. Evergreen to deciduous forests Global Distribution: Asia: Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. Local Distribution: Sikkim. Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India & Kailash, B. R., UAS & ATREE, Bangalore, India.
Location: Pharping, Nepal Altitude: 4500 ft. Date: 5 July 2015 Photos are not belonging to Ficus heterophylla L.f. Specimens should be verified physically for identity
Attachments (5) The old and new photographs are temporarly identified as Ficus pubigera (Wall. ex Miq.) Miq. The specimens should be verified physically. Thank you ...! It is climber/creeper attached to the tree. Request for validation Ficus pubigera (Wall. ex Miq.) Miq. Could it be Ficus hederacea Roxb. as it is listed in the book Flora of Kathmandu Valley but not F. pubigera. Looks different from images at Ficus hederacea
Attachments (8) Photographs are identified as Ficus pubigera. Young figs hairy. matured figs glabrous. Location: Soureni, Mirik, India Date: 21 April 2017 Altitude: 4200 ft Appears interesting. That is all I have. Only I can do is cropping. Is it ok ? To me looks different from your original post. It is the same plant in one month difference ! Are these also images of Ficus pubigera as stated by ... from the same plant taken one month back? I guess it is the initial stage of flowering/fruiting. All the younger and matured photos are confirmed as Ficus pubigera (Wall. ex Miq.) Miq. |
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