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Ficus microcarpus L.
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microcarpa: with small fruits.
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300-1100 m
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Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-December.
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Medium to large evergreen or briefly deciduous tree, terrestrial or starting as a strangler. Bark smoothish, pale to dark grey, sometimes with vertical lines of lenticels; latex present. Leaves alternate or whorled, elliptic or obovate, 4.5-12 cm long, rather stiff and somewhat leathery, mid- to dark green above, dull and paler below, usually hairless or finely hairy; midrib prominent, sometimes yellowish; apex usually acute; margin entire. Figs borne singly or in pairs in the leaf axils, sessile or pedunculate, rarely on bare twigs, subspherical, 10-20 mm in diameter, densely hairy to almost hairless, yellowish or rarely pink when ripe.
Trees, 15-25 m tall, crown wide, d.b.h. to 50 cm. Bark dark gray. Branches producing rust-colored aerial roots when old. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 0.8 cm. Petiole 5-10 mm, glabrous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, 4-8 × 3-4 cm, ± leathery, adaxially dark green and shiny but dark brown when dry, base cuneate, margin entire, apex ± obtuse; basal lateral veins long, secondary veins 3-10 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets or on leafless older branchlets, paired, yellow to slightly red when mature, depressed globose, 6-8 mm in diam., inside with a few short bristles among flowers, sessile; involucral bracts broadly ovate, persistent. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: scattered, sessile or pedicellate; filament as long as anther. Gall and female flowers: sepals 3, broadly ovate; style ± lateral; stigma short, clavate. Achenes ovoid. Fl. May-Jun.
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burkei: named after Joseph Burke (1812-1873), British naturalist and collector of plants and animals
Trees , evergreen, to 30 m. Roots aerial, abundant, sometimes developing pillar-roots. Bark gray. Branchlets brown, glabrous. Leaves: stipules 0.7-0.9 cm; petiole 0.5-1 cm. Leaf blade elliptic, obovate to ovate, 3-11 × 1.5-6 cm, thinly leathery, base obtuse to cuneate, margins entire, apex nearly acute to acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins 5-9 pairs, uniformly spaced. Syconia paired, sessile, purple or black, obovoid, pyriform, or nearly globose, 9-11 × 5-6 mm; subtending bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-3.5 mm, apex obtuse to subacute; ostiole closed by 3 flat, apical bracts 2-2.5 mm wide, umbonate.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 5
Specimens with Barcodes: 10
Species With Barcodes: 1
"Notes: Deciduous Forests, also Cultivated"